Sophie Brew in ???? where the title runs thus: “A Sri Lankan Feast on a Tropical Modernist Estate” …. NB: several striking pix of the food could not be uploaded
The chef Cynthia Shanmugalingam cooked a meal that celebrated the country’s heirloom produce and homegrown creative culture.

Guests of the chef Cynthia Shanmugalingam gathered on the red terrace of the Lunuganga Estate, the former country residence of the architect Geoffrey Bawa in Bentota, Sri Lanka.CreditCredit…Video by Pietro Lo Casto


In March 2021, a year into the pandemic, the British Sri Lankan chef Cynthia Shanmugalingam, now 42, was quarantining at a hotel in Ahangama, a town on Sri Lanka’s southern coast. She’d traveled from her home in London and was self-isolating ahead of a six-month-long stay with her parents in Nelliady, at the island’s northern tip, where she was planning to write her first cookbook. Eventually, she completed a draft of “Rambutan,” as she titled it (and as she would later call her restaurant in London’s Borough Market that opened in 2023). But a less expected outcome of those weeks alone was that she met her future partner, the 46-year-old entrepreneur Joe Lenora; he was based nearby and they started talking online. Last January, they returned to Sri Lanka to get married.
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