Sparkle with Sparkling Himalayan

You've cooked, you've baked and now here's your chance to mix and swig! Get ready to display your mixing skills with Sparkling Himalayan.

In your goodie bag is a special booklet of mocktail recipes using Sparkling Himalayan – natural, enriched mineral water with added carbonation. You need to use the recipe of your choice, give it a personal, unique twist to the recipe and create a drink worthy of walking away with exciting prizes!

What you need to know:

1. Sparkling Himalayan with its unique, distinct taste is pristine source water with added carbonation
2. Have sparkling on the rocks with ice and lemon or mix it up in your own flavour combination!

What you need to do:

1. Blog your own twist on a recipe by Shatbhi Basu
2. Mention the recipe is a part of the Sparkling Himalayan contest, post it on our Facebook page and Twitter handle @_himalayan
3. Mail your links to ifbmeet@gmail.com and get ready to win!

Some simple rules:

1. Your recipe must use Sparkling Himalayan and be shared on your blog
2. Please post pictures and make them look beautiful!
3. Winners will be announced 15 days from closure of IFBM on 13th August 2014
4. 3 lucky winners will win hampers worth Rs 5000
5. Remember to have fun and #SparkleEveryday!

Beyond Blogging with Kalyan Karmakar

We are happy to announce that Kalyan Karmakar has finally been able to make it to the IFBM2014, as a part of the panel in the Beyond Blogging discussion.

Kalyan Karmakar is a Mumbai based food & travel writer. His blog  is seven years old. He is a food and travel columnist for Femina & Burrp and is a contributor to the BBC Good Food Magazine India, Man’s World and Food and Nightlife magazines and has written for Times of India Crest and liveinstyle.com. He is working on a food travelogue for Hachette India. He conducts the very popular Finely Chopped Food Walks in Mumbai. He has anchored a show on street food for the Travel Channel USA. Kalyan’s blog, Finely Chopped, won in the best travel and food category of the Food Bloggers Association of India Awards 2013. 

His presence will give our audience further insights into other avenues that open up from foodblogging.

We look forward to having you with us, Kalyan!

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Meet our Sponsors - IFBM 2014 brought to you by Himalayan

We are excited to announce our other principal partner - Sparkling Himalayan, the newest offering from Himalayan Natural Mineral water. It is India's first Sparkling Water brand.

When you go abroad, you're often asked at restaurants - Still water or sparkling water? Himalayan is all set to start this trend in India.

Himalayan is the only natural mineral water brand to enjoy accreditations from renowned institutes 
across the world including Institut De Fresinius, US FDA and the Health Ministries of Japan & France. 
The Himalayan consumer is one with a discerning taste and desire to imbibe nature’s goodness in his 
body daily with every sip of water consumed.

Sparkling Himalayan is a natural, mineral enriched water made refreshing with the addition of mild 
carbonation to add a sparkle to life! Each sip of Sparkling Himalayan enriches the palate with a cool, 
distinct taste.

The goodness of Himalayan natural water is further enriched and gets an unforgettable twist to the 
palate with a unique taste and look. With mild carbonation levels, Sparkling Himalayan goes down 
smoothly refreshing and revitalizing with every sip. It offers an elegant and refreshing taste for the 
most discerning palates. Sparkling Himalayan is available for sale and also can be found at your favourite restaurants and Taj properties across Delhi & Mumbai.

You'll also get to have a taste of Sparkling Himalayan at #IFBM2014

Twitter: @_Himalayan