Members of the transgender community distributed food kits to slum dwellers and others in need in Surat amid the 21-day&nbsp;lockdown due to the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic. About 150 members prepared kits with rice, oil, tea leaves, flour and other essential items. The group got together ever year to celebrate Navratri&nbsp;but this year they decided to lend a helping hand instead and&nbsp;offered almost 1500 kits to people.&nbsp;

Members of the transgender community distributed food kits to slum dwellers and others in need in Surat amid the 21-day lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. About 150 members prepared kits with rice, oil, tea leaves, flour and other essential items. The group got together ever year to celebrate Navratri but this year they decided to lend a helping hand instead and offered almost 1500 kits to people.

In his new book titled&nbsp;How To Survive A Pandemic, American nutritionist Dr. Michael Greger&nbsp;has claimed that chicken farming could lead to a health crisis '100 times' greater than Covid-19, causing quite a stir. The vegan physician says that&nbsp;half the world&rsquo;s population could be wiped out by a disease from poultry farming if global farming practices continue as they are today.&nbsp;The Mirror reports,&nbsp;Greger&nbsp;believes current poultry production is the 'perfect breeding ground for diseases like the bird flu.' He pushed for smaller flocks with improved hygiene to try and slow the spread of viruses.&nbsp;

The 1st of June is commemorated as World Milk Day every year since 2001. Founded by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, it aims to recognise the importance of milk as a global food and the celebration has has entered its 20th year. While events to commemorate&nbsp;the big day were scrapped due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an online rally called was organised from the 29th to the 31st of May. It emphasised on the benefits of milk for health and nutrition along with its accessibility and affordability.&nbsp; According to the FAO, India is the largest producer of milk in the world, contributing almost 22% of the global production followed by the United States.

Who doesn't love a good food hack? A Tik Tok&nbsp;user shared a clip of their mother using a pair of tongs to cut a cake leaving netizens&nbsp;impressed. The method lets you cut equally sized slices of cake every time ensuring that no one in the family fights over which slice to grab!&nbsp;

The next time&nbsp;you find a robot serving you at a restaurant, don't be surprised! Netherlands'&nbsp;Royal Palace is trialling two robotic waiters, ahead of its opening next week. From taking orders to returning used tableware, the unnamed robots will do everything in the restaurant. The restaurant shared that only 30 customers will be permitted to dine at the restaurant at a time, following all safety measures with amid&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic.

As France plans to ease certain restrictions amid the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic, inventors are toying with new ideas to bring customers back. A Paris restaurant called H.A.N.D has tested 'clear bucket-shaped domes' placed over the head of each diner, hanging from the ceiling! Designed by&nbsp;French designer Christophe Gernigon, the domes extend to the mid-torse of the diner and another prototype&nbsp;extends down over two diners together to separate&nbsp;their party from the others in the restaurant. The domes seem to be both aesthetically and functionally pleasing.&nbsp;
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Another day, another quarantine food trend. Netizens&nbsp;at home are satisfying their sweet tooth cravings by these sweet burger&nbsp;versions. Dubbed 'dessert burger,' people fill their burger buns with marshmallows, fruits, cookies, chocolates and more! From the looks of it, these dessert burgers could be a great way to mark International Burger Day at home!&nbsp;

Think you know all about sushi? This new quarantine food trend might leave you stumped! All over social media in the Phillippines&nbsp;is the sushi bake, which is basically a deconstructed sushi baked like&nbsp;a casserole. With all the components of sushi like salmon, rice or crab sticks in the bake dish, people serve the casserole with roasted seaweed on the side and share their #sushibake&nbsp;adventures on social media.&nbsp;

Eid-ul Fitr celebrations have taken a different hue amid the Covid-19 pandemic. To avoid over crowding in markets, shops in Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh home delivered vermicelli as people were hesitant to step out. The festival marks the end of the month of Ramzan&nbsp;and is celebrated by preparing special dishes such as&nbsp;biryani, nihari and seviyan. According to a&nbsp;report by news agency ANI, markets have suffered&nbsp;huge losses in business this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, since it is usually on Eid when the maximum sale of vermicelli happens.

Burger King has a new way to ensure that its customers maintain social distance. The fast-food chain has launched 'social distance crowns' in Germany that keep customers six feet away from each other, as restaurants reopen for dine-in services. The brand shared that it's a 'fun and playful' way to help customers follow safety rules amid the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;In Italy, the chain is selling a 'Social Distancing Burger' with three times the amount of raw onions usually found in a regular whopper! People's onion-induced bad breath will keep them farther away from each other, the company jokes.&nbsp;
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allowed the home delivery of liquor across all parts of&nbsp;Mumbai, except for containment zones. The BMC&nbsp;added that over-the-counter sale of liquor will not be allowed yet. The notice comes&nbsp;a week after the Maharashtra government gave permission for&nbsp;door delivery of liquor.&nbsp;
According to reports, other states like&nbsp;Punjab, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala&nbsp;are also working towards home delivery of alcohol.&nbsp;

The epicentre of the coronavirus&nbsp;outbreak in China, Wuhan&nbsp;has reportedly banned&nbsp;the eating of wild animals.&nbsp;The new policy came into effect on May 13 and will remain in place for five years, as per government notification. In a response to the pandemic, all hunting of wild animals will be banned within its limits, declaring Wuhan "a wildlife sanctuary," with the exception of government-sanctioned hunting for "scientific research, population regulation, monitoring of epidemic diseases and other special circumstances."

Four-time winner&nbsp;of the title of the World&rsquo;s Best Restaurant, Copenhagen's Noma&nbsp;has reopened its doors but there's a twist. The restaurant, where you normally have to reserve a table months in advance, has now turned itself into an accessibly-priced burger joint. The wine and burger bar pop-up has only outdoor seating and the formal restaurant will reopen with about half the number of guests soon.&nbsp;

Indian Michelin star chef&nbsp;Vikas Khanna is all set to organise the 'world's largest Eid feast' in Mumbai, where he plans to feed almost two&nbsp;lakh people. The world-known chef has been providing rations for those worst-affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a PTI report, the food is being collected at the Haji Ali Dargah, from where it will be distributed across Dharavi, Mahim Dargah and Mohammed Ali Road with the help of the National Disaster Response Force and 200 volunteers. The feast will begin on Friday and includes over one lakh&nbsp;kilos of dry ration, fresh and dry fruits, and juices among other things. Over the past month, he has been able to distribute over six million meals across 80 cities of India, he shared in a tweet.&nbsp;

This is probably the kitchen hack you've been waiting for! A TikTok user showed the easiest way to juice a lemon and netizens are stunned at the technique. You only need a lemon and a skewer. Take the skewer and push it through one of the ends of the lemon, making sure not to let the skewer come out of the other end. Take the skewer out and squeeze out the juice into a bowl. The seedless method has been tried by many on social media and they seem to approve of it!

Food delivery platform Swiggy has begun the home delivery of alcohol in Ranchi today after obtaining necessary approvals from the Jharkhand government,&nbsp;Moneycontrol&nbsp;reports. The service will be extended to other cities this week. There will be a cap amount a person can order to ensure that no person can order alcohol above the prescribed limit as per the state law, the report said. Customers will have to verify their age&nbsp;by uploading a picture of their valid government ID, followed by a selfie&nbsp;which will be instantly verified by AI.&nbsp;

A Roman restaurant, Corsi Trattoria&nbsp;(Cor-sy Traetoria), has reopened after two months with new restrictions in place. The eatery has been a favourite&nbsp;for locals and tourists for the last 60 years and now attempts to adjust to the new normal. Hand gels welcome guests at the entrance, customers must sit far apart and cooks and waiters don gloves and masks. Customers will be able to see the menu on their mobile phones with new ordering systems in place. One of the first customers, who dined at the restaurant described it as an 'emotional' event. Across Italy, hairdressers, gyms and restaurants are now opening up, months after being closed. However, they must adjust to a new series of complicated rules as restrictions are slowly eased.

The Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India has warned that approximately 70% of restaurants and hotels could close within the next 1.5 months with the Covid-19 pandemic crippling the travel sector. With absolutely no relief from the government, the industry stares at bankruptcy, job losses and definite closures of major establishments across India, said the organisation. There are approximately&nbsp;53,000 hotels and 70 lakh restaurants in the organised category and about&nbsp;2.3 crore restaurants in the unorganised sector in India.&nbsp;

The National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) has partnered with startup Dotpe, to unveil a&nbsp;digital ordering solution for restaurants that will help them minimise human touch as they plan for restarting operations. The restaurant body in a Facebook&nbsp;Live announced a series of measures to help revive the industry which is severely impacted by the country-wide lockdown. The collaboration could help reduce the dependency of aggregator&nbsp;apps&nbsp;like Swiggy, Zomato. With Dotpe, NRAI&nbsp;is working on a solution that will be similar to Zomato's contactless&nbsp;dining feature.&nbsp;

Italy has announced the reopening of regional and international borders from June 3 as&nbsp;luxury hotels sit empty for the first time in decades with the coronavirus pandemic gripping the country's tourism and hospitality industries.&nbsp;The government will eliminate the 14-day quarantine for international arrivals in a bid to revive its tourism industry.&nbsp;Foreign visitors are the mainstay of iconic, high-priced hotels, but Italy remains cautious in Covid-19&nbsp;containment measures, as one of the world's hardest-hit countries.&nbsp;On another end of the battle, Italian Hospitality Network held spontaneous protests in several Italian cities amid concerns that restrictions brought in to tackle the new coronavirus will negatively affect their income.

A cafe&nbsp;in Germany&nbsp;has re-opened but with some new rules amid the Covid-19 pandemic. With a motto to 'keep the social distance', the&nbsp;owners distributed straw hats with protruding noodles attached on top to celebrate its reopening last week. Customers seated outside Cafe Rothe were seen enjoying their meals while wearing the hats and maintaining social distance. It looks like this could be the future of dining-in.&nbsp;

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