Property of the Month

Perfect Patch of Sunny Paradise

One of the most beautiful sites along the Rekawa beach in Tangalle, this spectacular 236 perch property boasts a 65 metre wide beachfront with wide and sandy white beaches. Scattered with an abundance of coconut palms the land slopes up from the beach to a high point in the centre before a gentle slope downwards again towards the gravel road that runs along its inland boundary.....

This Month's Top Story

The 31 Places to Go in 2010 - Sri Lanka is the Number One Place to Visit – New York Times

by Lionel Beehner

New York Times Reports that Sri Lanka in top among their 31 Recommended places to visit during year 2010.

For a quarter century, Sri Lanka seems to have been plagued by misfortune, including a brutal civil war between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. But the conflict finally ended last May, ushering in a more peaceful era for this teardrop-shaped island off India’s coast, rich in natural beauty and cultural splendours.

The island, with a population of just 20 million, feels like one big tropical zoo: elephants roam freely, water buffaloes idle in paddy fields and monkeys swing from trees. And then there’s the pristine coastline. The miles of sugary white sand flanked by bamboo groves that were off-limits to most visitors until recently are a happy, if unintended by-product of the war.......

Book of the Month

A cookbook spiced with local flavours and childhood memories

by Renuka Sadanandan

“When our houseboy Nehal brought us the crusty bread from the bakery next door it was still steaming hot. I used to love cutting thick slices of the bread and putting spoonfuls of pol sambal on it- it was delicious.”

Reading Peter Kuruvita’s cookbook is like taking a stroll through memories past for entwined with the many tastes of his homeland is the story of the Kuruvita clan and his boyhood memories of steaming curries and all the foods of his growing years. His memories of Sri Lankan food come from his grandmother’s kitchen..........

Recipe of the Month

Frikkadels

Sri Lankan fare is often mistaken for yet another Indian regional cuisine. Yet to the culinary explorer, Sri Lankan Food is as intriguing and unique as the many other customs of this island paradise. In spite of its tiny size, Sri Lanka boasts an amazing variety of food and styles of cooking. The island has a rich heritage of indigenous dishes and its regional cooking is strongly individual and varied. For example, Kandyan Sinhalese cooking, with its emphasis on hill country vegetables and fruits; coastal cooking, making the best of the abundant seafood with which the land is blessed; Tamil cooking, closely linked to that of southern India, which is especially prevalent in Jaffna, in the north.