My Sri Lanka with Peter Kuravita

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This programme is currently being shown on UK Food. I was naturally drawn to it after a tour of Sri Lanka last year. (Those on Wildfood may remember
my post about cooking a Sri Lankan meal, but I wrote it up as a blog post too http://cookingtheveganbooks.com/2011/05 ... ri-lankan/ )

Peter is an Australian national who was born in Sri Lanka and I already have his cookbook - it may have been based on the sries, thinking about it now. He goes to a different part of the country each episode and makes a few stunning looking dishes in glorious settings, with beautiful local pots, pans and serving dishes.
There are a few continuity errors in the programme in the recipes, which I am guessing are from chopping out a small section of the original to make room for the adverts, but it's well worth half an hour of your time. I dont know how many are in the series, but it's shown at lots of different times of the day, so you should still be able to catch most of them.

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i'll keep my eyes open for this.
The UK food channel always seems to be closed when I channel surf.

I really enjoyed the simplicity of fish in Sri Lanka. And their light curries with sambal have an aroma of their own.

(nice write up Liz on your blog.)

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I've found the series a mixed bag - generally very interesting, obviously being bilingual halps him a lot

Then every s oftne he gets local ingredeints and announces he is going to make an italian dish! or similar, Bizarrely off-topic in my view. The travelogue elements are fascinating, and much of the food (though no one will ever convince me that I like hoopers or idlis)

I'd love to go to Sri Lanka "properly" - i spent two days there on stopovers when goign to South india.

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I haven't seen him making any Italian dishes yet, but I did think that he missed a trick with his explanations sometimes. When he was in Nuwara Eliya for example, I would have been surprised at some of the ingredients he used - like using parsley in his curry, for example, if I hadn't spent time there, and known that it is known for growing lots of very english ingredients from the tea plantation days. I was very surprised he didn't explain that.