-
Seasonal Offer:
This title is part of our Seasonal Offers promotion.
Serendip: The Collection: My Sri Lankan Kitchen
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £5.70
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Serendip: My Sri Lankan Kitchen for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £5.70, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"Amazingly beautiful as well as informative. Sumptuous location and food photography are intertwined with recipes for an intriguing insight into an unfamiliar culture."
--The Bookseller
--The Bookseller
Product Description
Serendip takes us on a rich and rewarding journey through Sri Lanka's traditional foods, its family-orientated culture and its colourful approach to life. Acclaimed chef Peter Kuruvita has reached deep into kitchen experiences with his grandmother and aunties, and has travelled the markets and stalls of the lush green island, to bring us this comprehensive collection of Sri Lankan recipes and a host of heart-warming stories. Offering Sri Lankan curries of every kind, as well as traditional snacks, breads and sticky sweet treats, Serendip is a treasury of spicy meals and tasty morsels. Key points: beautiful location photography brings the recipes to vibrant life; authentic Sri Lankan food, simply prepared and described; historical detail and fascinating family memories
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
41 of 43 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Finally, an easy to follow recipe book for Sri Lankan food! This book is exactly what I have been looking for in the last 10 years. I like the little tips that Peter provides along with the recipe instructions. For example there were some tips on how to select tamarind, this was excellent. All the other Sri Lankan recipe books I have, assume that one has this knowledge innately...perhaps from watching mum cooking. I wasn't even remotely interested in learning to cook from my mum in our Sri Lankan kitchen when I was growing up, so it's refreshing to see Peter's approach at writing this book. I have all the recipe books that have been published by well known Sri Lankan cooks, but from now on, Peter's book will be the one I would recommend to anyone who wishes to master the art of Sri Lankan cooking.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a gorgeous sumptuous book, too good to keep on the kitchen shelf getting greasy. Lots of pictures of the food, and family pictures of the author growing up as this is essentially a personal memoir as well as a cook book. The food photographs are perfectly styled to evoke long languid relaxed family meals, and the recipes are straightforward enough to ensure the cook stays as relaxed as the guests. None of the recipes are complicated, and most of the ingredients are freely available these days, though the authors' insistence on using some of the ingredients, such as curry leaves, fresh only is a bit of a challenge where I live. I would have liked a "where to buy" section at the back of the book, but I'm sure a quick google (other search engines are available) will find most of the products for me. Sri Lankan cooking has been a backwater in Indian cuisine for a long time, but hopefully books like this will make it more popular and widely known. This book is excellent for anyone interested in Asian cooking, but a must for anyone who has enjoyed a holiday in Sri Lanka, and wants to preserve the memory.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a beautifully produced book and different from the run of the mill cook book in that it has reminiscence's from the author of his homeland and his family and the part they played in his interest in food. There are many photographs (especially inside the jacket that folds out to give a whole 'vista' of images of Sri Lanka) which add to the whole beautifully presented feel of the book. I purchased it as a gift for my husband who has never had his own cook book before but after our trip to Sri Lanka, was desperate to find somewhere to enjoy more of the wonderful food. Where better than in our own kitchen?! We were both delighted to read the book first and be excited to see recipes of many of our favourite foods, even the gorgeous breakfast hopper (we had purchased a hopper pan from the local market and obtained the hotel chef's recipe to try at home whilst in Sri Lanka!)
The recipes are laid out easily and for any ingredients the author thinks may be tricky to get outside Sri Lanka, he suggests alternatives. We have found nothing so far that we cannot obtain in local specialist (chinese/indian) food shops.
Sri Lanka is an amazing country and this book is a wonderful reminder of it. We cannot wait to go back, meanwhile we can enjoy the authentic recipes in this fabulous book!
The recipes are laid out easily and for any ingredients the author thinks may be tricky to get outside Sri Lanka, he suggests alternatives. We have found nothing so far that we cannot obtain in local specialist (chinese/indian) food shops.
Sri Lanka is an amazing country and this book is a wonderful reminder of it. We cannot wait to go back, meanwhile we can enjoy the authentic recipes in this fabulous book!
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Brill
At last a book that gives you the recipes from the beautiful country of Sri Lanka. Have been to this island numerous times but could never find a book which gave the recipes to... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Paul and RD
Beautiful book
Wow - this book is a thing of beauty to behold and contains all the basics you need to know - we have had great adventures in Sri Lanka, love the food and the people and this is... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. S. E. Marchant
Peter Kuruvita
I bought this book following the TV series My Srilanka with Peter Kuruvita. It is a very well laid out book and has great pictures. Read more
Published 1 month ago by K Mehta
Hot Stuff!
This is a thoroughly authentic and exciting cookery book. I have used all of the curry mix recipes and the results are authentic and excellent. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lebarail
A quality product
Bought this for my mum as a last minute christmas present she herself is sri lankan and even she discoverd new things from how to make sambaals/chutneys to new modern style curries... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Christopher Will
Lovely.
This is probably one of the nicest cook books i have ever seen.My husband and i got married in Sri Lanka Jan 2010 and enjoyed the food so much,now we are back i wanted to recreate... Read more
Published on 15 May 2010 by Mrs. M. Scott
Serendip:My Sri Lankan Kitchen
This is a lovely book with beautiful pictures and great traditional dishes. A great coffee table book as most have suggested. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2010 by Arjuna Jayasinghe
Best cookery book I have ever found!
This is by far the best cookery book I have ever come across. The layout is beautiful, the recipies inspiring, the authour interesting. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2010 by lady.morse
absolutely fantastic
we have tried many of the recpies , and as for the story it is so true to life as i come from ceylon and believe every thing peter says. thanks again. ramon.
Published on 6 Feb 2010 by C. R. Hatch
Sri Lankan Memories
Serendip is one of the most beautiful books in my possession - a feast for the eyes and a feast for the taste buds. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2009 by Mrs. Lorna C. Wright
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
