In Rick8217;s Rasoi

The Games Village kitchen is spread over 10,000 square metres. So,how many people can his kitchen feed? 30,000 to 40,000 meals a day. Ingredients needed per day? Thirteen tonnes of rice,two million 500ml bottles of drinking water,10,000 pounds of fresh meat,8,000 pineapples,to name a few. How many eggs come in every day? That is the only question that leaves Aylett stumped.

The food drill begins when the perishables arrive in a convoy of 100 vehicles. The security is informed in advance and trucks are first taken to a centre outside the Village to be screened. Once they have been X-rayed,each truck is sealed and labelled.

How different is the Delhi experience from Melbourne? Jugaad, Aylett says. That8217;s the word I8217;m looking for. In Delhi,we somehow do jugaad and things fall into place at the last minute.