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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gourmet Galle: A Culinary Extravaganza on the South Coast of Sri Lanka! Galle, Sri Lanka – 10th January 2024: Gourmet Galle, the partner festival to the esteemed Galle Literary Festival, is set to launch an exceptional 12-week culinary celebration on the picturesque shores of the south of Sri Lanka. Conceived by Geoffrey Dobbs, the festival director, and founder, Gourmet Galle aims to bring people out of the wintry cold and dark countries, offering an extended food festival experience amidst the tropical coastal landscape. Held every weekend from January 12th to March 31st, Gourmet Galle promises to be a gastronomic delight, featuring 12 internationally renowned chefs. This impressive lineup of chef’s hail from some of the key culinary destinations such as London, New York, Sidney and Singapore. The gourmet gurus Darina Allen, O Tama Carey, Karan Gokani, Mark Hix, Peter Kuruwita, Jeremy Lee, James Lowe, Hari Nayak, Nisha ...

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Showstopper hoppers with curries and sambols: O Tama Carey’s Sri Lankan spread – recipe – O Tama Carey Source:theguardian.com The chef and owner of Lankan Filling Station shares her recipe for the intricate dish that made her famous, served with a big mixed plate of prawn curry, simple dal and sambols My love of hoppers is a well-established fact. Long before I opened Lankan Filling Station, every trip to Sri Lanka inevitably turned into a mini hopper pilgrimage. I watched them being made, I questioned their makers and occasionally someone would let me on to their pans to attempt a hopper swirl. Despite this borderline obsession, I had only really tried to make them from scratch once, with my nan in Perth. On reflection, it might have been a good idea to nail a recipe before committing to opening a restaurant. When it came time to make my own recipes ...

Apr 12, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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Cook up a Sri Lankan spread from O Tama Carey’s new cookbook – by O TAMA CAREY Source:goodfood.com.au O Tama Carey didn’t intend to open a restaurant. But after stumbling into a career in hospitality – and cooking everything from French and Italian, Japanese and Chinese – she decided to tap her Sri Lankan heritage for her next move, opening a shop selling hoppers, the bowl-shaped pancakes with crisp edges, fluffy interiors and slightly tangy flavour that are such a feature of Lankan cuisine. The shop morphed into a restaurant, Lankan Filling Station, which she opened in Sydney’s Darlinghurst in 2018. Now she’s on a mission to introduce more people to the cuisine she has grown up with, in her cookbook Lanka Food: Serendipity & Spice, which distils family recipes, ideas from her travels in Sri Lanka, dishes that evolved because of the produce we have available in Australia and her own ideas based on her ...

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