TURKEY didn’t make it onto the Christmas table in the Pillai household until Doris Pillai was a teenager. The family Christmas feast would comprise typical Sri Lankan fare – both chicken and mutton curries (dry and wet curries, mind you), cutlets, Korma curry, a wide spread of vegetables and rice.
“It was something special! We never had so many varieties of curries and all types of meat on the table at the same time except on Christmas.
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