Meet the chef who spent 10 years learning about Sri Lanka's lost recipes


Sudheera (right) spent 10 years travelling to 2,000 villages and speaking to 5,000 senior citizens in Sri Lanka in a bid to compile the country’s lost recipes and food culture. — Photos: SUDHEERA BANDARA   

In the annals of food, time is reflected in evolving trends, changing predilections and quite often, the obliteration of recipes once considered sacrosanct in different communities.

Sadly, there is often nothing to mark the end of a culinary era or the death of a recipe. It simply dies, its life unmarked and forgotten – as though it had never existed at all.

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