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Cynthia Shanmugalingam shares a taste of Sri Lanka – By Cynthia Shanmugalingam Source : sbs Pieced together from a lifetime of travels, myths and memories, new book Rambutan offers a special perspective on Sri Lanka and its food. My Mum – alongside almost everyone else in my Sri Lankan family – seems to have been born knowing just what fruit, veg, fish, meat, spices and rice to buy, when everything is in season, and how to turn it all into the wonderful Sri Lankan fare that they eat every day. Unlike them, I have had to learn a different way. When my parents left the island in the 1960s to live in England, they didn’t know that on the flight, thousands of years of culinary knowledge would be evaporated into thin air. Alongside my brother and sister, I could never quite pick up everything they knew ‘back home’. And yet, I ...