Rice & Bread Sri Lankan Style is a part of 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. This series of cookbooks contain a year's worth of recipes and menus for everyday meals, holidays, and special occasions-all written with customary Sri Lankan flair. For seasoned Sri Lankan cooks, this series of cookbooks is a treasure of over 80 traditional recipes that everyone will love. For traditional Sri Lankan cooks, Rice & Bread (series 1) offers old favorites using traditional Sri Lankan ingredients in a contemporary fashion. For the new generation of Sri Lankan who want to learn some favorite Sri Lankan recipes, Rice & Bread(series 1) offers recipes every Sri Lankan must know such as Kiri Buth, Pol Roti, and the ever-popular Kottu Roti. For the international cooks, this book offers 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. 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.
