Cooking Veggies Sri Lankan Style is a short collection of authentic Sri Lankan recipes that highlight the styles and techniques of island cookery using a variety of spices, vegetables, and coconut milk. Sri Lanka is a tropical island in the Indian Ocean known as Serendipity or the Pearl of the Indian Ocean to the ancient travelers of the West. Since ancient times, Sri Lanka has been famous for spices, tea, coconut, and precious gems. Its mystical beauty that spreads from the golden beaches to the hills with tea plantations gives a natural diversity to the native foods. This collection of recipes that have passed down for generations shows tasteful dishes cooked using vegetables, coconut milk, herbs, and spices. Shyamali Perera was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and emigrated to the United States in 1989, during Sri Lanka's civil war. She was an educator of young children for thirty years in Orange County, California. Her first book, Curry & Rice, published as a Mother's Day gift in 2007, was published as an e-book in 2014. Since then she has published several cookbooks and children's books available in both ebook and paperback versions. Shyamali is also an amateur photographer and likes to create beautiful books with inspiring ideas. She lives with her family in Southern California and continues to dedicate her time to writing a variety of cookbooks and children's books. Cooking Sri Lankan Style is a series of cookbooks that acknowledge the importance of year-round culinary traditions while showing how an island culture continues to shape modern food choices and cooking methods. For seasoned Sri Lankan cooks, these cookbooks are a treasure of over 100 traditional recipes that everyone will love. For the new generation of Sri Lankan and international cooks who want to cook popular Sri Lankan recipes, such as Kiri Buth, Pol Roti, and the ever-popular Kottu Roti these books offer a fresh way to cook with different varieties of rice, flour, coconut, and island spices and a complete list of equipment, cooking tips, and photos.
