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With that idea for more than 40 years ago, Silva published a culinary book Mahasupavanshaya. [12] In the book, 90% of the edible plants in Sri Lanka are published with photos. This includes 56 endemic potato varieties, 76 endemic fruits and 1450 endemic plants. The book is designed to be changed every two years. The book consists of a thousand ...
Classification: People: By occupation: Businesspeople: By nationality: Sri Lankan Also: Sri Lanka : People : By occupation : Businesspeople Wikimedia Commons has media related to Businesspeople from Sri Lanka .
The State Literary Award is a set of annual literary prizes by the Government of Sri Lanka under several categories. The awards cover fiction, poetry, translations, songs and cover designs. Works from Sinhala, Tamil and English language are reviewed. [1]
Dharshan Munidasa was born in Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother, Nobuko Munidasa and Sri Lankan father, Dr. Milton Munidasa and spent most of his childhood in Japan, [7] where his earliest experiments in cooking were upon observing his mother and Japanese aunts in the kitchen. [8]
Shehan Karunatilaka (born 1975) is a Sri Lankan writer. He grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore.His 2010 debut novel Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and was adjudged the second greatest cricket book of all time by Wisden.
Sri Lanka is historically famous for its cinnamon. The 'true cinnamon' tree, or Cinnamomum verum , used to be botanically named Cinnamomum zeylanicum to reflect its Sri Lankan origins. This is a widely utilized spice in Sri Lanka, and has a more delicate, sweet taste in comparison to Cinnamomum cassia , which is more common in some other ...
My Sri Lanka with Peter Kuruvita is a 10-part Australian cooking television series created by The Precinct Studios [1] that originally aired on SBS One on 3 November 2011 until 5 January 2012. It is presented by Australian born Sri Lankan chef Peter Kuruvita .
Shyam Selvadurai (born 12 February 1965) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist. [1] He is most noted for his 1994 novel Funny Boy, which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award [2] and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. [3]