Cooking from my Heart
Loving Spoonfuls from a Sri Lankan Family Kitchen
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On Spices
Spices? Hot & tongue-burning’? This is a sad misunderstanding. Yes, chillies can give your tongue a bite, but many a spice simply adds flavour without the sting. Tried Cinnamon? It is sweet and aromatic, but not hot!. Spices are flavour-enhancers, and ‘hotness’ of a spice can be cut back or added on to suit one’s taste buds and culinary daring. Dare to try?
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Pleasing to the palate, exciting to the eye, soothing and healing for the body and mind. This captures the essence of Swarna Sugunasiri’s Cooking from My Heart.
These Recipes have emerged in the process of trying to make tasty, healthy and colourful meals in a family setting in North America. Though the initial inspiration is the Sri Lankan palate, don’t be surprised to find the recipes taking you far and wide, to many a land, breaking traditional boundaries. Living in North America over four decades, Swarna’s family would not be satisfied with anything less!
The spices and the condiments in the recipes have been deliberately chosen for their intrinsic healing properties and tongue satisfying flavours. Whatever your culinary tradition, North American, European, Asian or African, Cooking from My Heart will leave you asking for more. Anyone trying out Swarna’s recipes of Sri Lankan flavours with an international twist will not fail to be excited by the sheer joy of cooking, and enjoying them with family and friends for years to come.
About the Author
Born in Sri Lanka, Swarna Sugunasiri spent three years in the US before settling down in Canada in 1967. She retired as a Head of Department in a High School in Toronto, Ontario, ending a 30 year career in education. A connoisseur of food all her life, raising a family in North America allowed her the opportunity to experiment and innovate, helping her to bring the art of cooking to perfection. Her dishes are not always easy to be pinned down to a particular culinary tradition, drawing as she does from an international pool. She has had the fortune of benefiting from her mother who toiled at the hearth under less than satisfactory cooking conditions that we take for granted today. Cooking for Swarna is a meditation.