Rambutan: Recipes from Sri Lanka, Accompanying the Acclaimed New London Restaurant

Tolle Rezepte

Sri Lanka is like curry, and curry is like Lanka. RAMBUTAN has all their virtues and none of their vices. Sri Lanka is an elusive place, with layer after invisible layer. You peel one open, and then another appears. With curry, the second one flavour settles, another complex one emerges. RAMBUTAN is like this too. At first glance a cook book (and a very fine one at that) but quickly its genre-bending essense emerges - the recipes are the structure on which memoir, travelogue, photo book, banter and political commentary are built. The dishes traverse the island's polyglot, ecumenical culinary traditions which emerged from its position at the centre of Indian ocean trading and monsoonal wind-powered sailing routes. With particular emphasis on Lanka's formidable tradition of vegetarian cuisine. I can think of few better ways of introducing yourself to Lanka, and no better way of introducing yourself to Sri Lankan cooking than via this book; which is the best Sri Lankan cook-book since Hilda Deutrom's which was published in 1930. I do hope this champion will be followed by a more regional sweep, perhaps of cooking along the entire Malabar coast! Alternatively, a cookbook of Sri Lanka's regions.

Bom livro

This is an excellent cookbook. I thoroughly recommend it.

I am enjoying this. Beautiful book, uplifting design, inspiring recipes and ideas, full page color photographs,, learned a lot, well done.