A cookery book in Sinhala, written by Juliet Fernando and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The whole text — recipes, instructions, headings — is in Sinhala script, with no English translation, so it will suit readers who are comfortable in the language or households where Sinhala is cooked from and spoken.
The book sets out how to prepare a wide range of dishes across several categories of food, working through each method step by step so that the sequence of preparation is clear. Its framing is that cookery is a discipline with its own body of knowledge, one long practised in the East and carried forward by women of the household, and that present-day techniques and equipment have extended what that knowledge can do. The recipes are presented in that spirit: as instruction rather than as a loose collection of ideas.
M. D. Gunasena is a long-established Colombo publishing house issuing titles in Sinhala and English, and this sits within its practical and domestic list.
It will be of interest to Sinhala-reading cooks abroad who want a kitchen book in their own language, to families keeping a home cookery tradition alive outside Sri Lanka, and to anyone building a shelf of Sri Lankan cookery writing in the original. Readers without Sinhala should note that nothing in the book is accessible in English.
- Author: Juliet Fernando
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552100833
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