Meet Chef Peter, the explorer

Cooking, travelling, adventure: Peter Kuruvita indulges in all these interests on his TV food series.

IT is just past nine in the morning and chef Peter Kuruvita has already got me thinking of a rice-and-curry lunch. He is listing down the dishes he would recommend to someone who was new to Sri Lankan food.

“You should have a black fish curry, some dhall, a gotu kola, which is a pennywort (pegaga) sambal, and possibly some chicken curry. You have to have Sri Lankan lime pickle and tamarind chutney on the side,” he tells South-East Asian journalists in a conference call from his home in Sydney, Australia.