At my parents’ home in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, as at many others across South Asia, curry leaf trees grow in the backyard, suffusing the air with a slight earthiness. That scent only intensifies when ...
Chef, restaurateur and author Karan Gokani is stopping by the TODAY kitchen to make a few of his favorite recipes from his cookbook, "Hoppers: The Cookbook: Recipes, Memories and Inspiration from Sri ...
Today we set out on an epic street food tour in Kandy to taste the best street food in Sri Lanka. Kandy is home to some popular Sri Lankan foods, and we kicked off our Sri Lankan food tour tasting ...
WHEN THE PANDEMIC derailed the 2020 launch of her restaurant, Cynthia Shanmugalingam jumped a plane from London to Jaffna, Sri Lanka, and spent months in a “marathon of writing, researching, learning ...
As any fan of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain knows, food is more than raw ingredients. To understand a bowl of noodles or a perfectly formed dumpling, a foodie must understand the people who make it, ...
This June 11, 2017 photo provided by The Culinary Institute of America shows Sri Lankan crab curry in Hyde Park, N.Y. This dish is from a recipe by the CIA. (Phil Mansfield/The Culinary Institute of ...
A few weeks ago I was drinking tea at a shop in Alhambra, and a man seated near me mentioned he was from Sri Lanka. I asked him if there were any Sri Lankan restaurants he particularly loved around ...