{"id":67929,"date":"2013-01-05T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=67929"},"modified":"2013-01-05T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T08:42:18","slug":"sri-lankan-dishes-answer-call-for-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-dishes-answer-call-for-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Dishes Answer Call For Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, as I was thumbing through cookbooks looking for inspiration, I came upon a recipe for chicken with cashews, and not the bland Chinese-American version that was so popular for a while. Madhur Jaffrey, the prolific authority on Indian cooking, had a Sri Lankan version in her fascinating book, \u201cFrom Curries to Kebabs,\u201d published in 2003. In it, she describes the path beginning in India that took curries to the far reaches of the globe; to Indonesia, Africa and beyond. Her recipe, which I adapted and modified a fair bit, contained both cashews and coconut, along with a mixture of spices in a pungent creamy sauce. It sounded wonderful and made me want to travel.<\/p>\n<p>DAVID TANIS writes for New York Times, read the full article <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/09\/dining\/exploring-sri-lankan-cooking.html?ref=dining&amp;_r=2&amp;\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":67930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lankan Dishes Answer Call For Inspiration - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-dishes-answer-call-for-inspiration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sri Lankan Dishes Answer Call For Inspiration - 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