“OUR STAPLE DIET” – by Des Kelly I am not too certain about rice being eaten morning, noon & night, but personally, I still prefer rice & curry to ANY cuisine available to us, Sri Lankans. Thank you Victor Melder, for this elaborate story on the humble grain. Many thousands of our e’Lanka readers will enjoy this post, as I have done. I do feel that I am alive today, only because I chose rice & curry as my main meal Forgetting about steaks. Sausages & stuff. Even at 4 score & 6, I still must have rice & curry (fish mainly), a couple of vegetable (bandakkas, egg-fruit, & or roast potatoes, also called ala-thel-dhaala, preferably, c/w a bit of lunu-miris or coconut sambol. No names or pack drill, but I now boast a Sri Lankan lady who has been a Chef in at least 4 (Four) different Countries, before ...

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