Rambutan

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Shortlisted for the Jane Grigson Trust Award for New Food and Drink Writers Since Cynthia Shanmugalingam was a young girl, she has worked to piece together a sense of Sri Lanka, her ancestral homeland that she experienced through the wondrous flavors of her immigrant parents’ kitchen in England. In Rambutan , these ingredients, methods, and tastes—combining Javanese, Malay, Indian, Arab, Portuguese, Dutch and British influences—come together to create an irresistible portrait of modern Sri Lanka