Food

Konda Kavum is especially associated with the Sinhala New Year where it is part of an array of sweetmeats and savouries.

The Bio-Regenerative Life Support System (BLSS) developed by Beihang University creates a closed environment where most substances necessary for human life like water, oxygen and food can be regenerated through a biochemical process.

Rajagopal’s world came crashing down when he pursued the daughter of one of his employees, believing that she would bring him even greater success.

June 17 (Reuters) - Plastic pollution is so widespread in the environment that you may be ingesting five grams a week, the equivalent of eating a credit card, a study commissioned by the environmental charity WWF International said on Wednesday. The study by Australia’s University of Newcastle said the largest source of plastic ingestion was drinking water, but another major source was shellfish,...

June 12 (Hindustan Times) - Food tastes better when you are sitting down, say scientists who found that holding a standing posture for even a few minutes prompts physical stress, muting taste buds. The research, published in the Journal of Consumer Research, looked specifically at how the vestibular sense, which is responsible for balance, posture and spatial orientation, interacts with the...

Colombo, March 19 (@serial.eaters #Instagram) - You guys asked us for a proper review of Doner & Durum, so we went by again! We had to wait a bit for a table (approximately 15mins) since it was a weekend night and all, & the place is quite small, but in my opinion, it was worth it! They don’t have much...

Colombo, Feb 18 (@SerialEaters #Instagram) - So, we’ve been seeing loads of brunch spots popping up all over the island. Almost all of them have incredible Instagram grids, with pics of food that honestly look way too good to eat. Having said that, the Grind’s Instagram feed is on a whole other level! It is gorgeous, and so, (not even...

Thanks to the presence of 10,000 Korean and Japanese expats, over 50 East Asian speciality restaurants are challenging the dominance of Dosai, Idli and vadai in Chennai. By Simrit Mahli/BBC Capital Chennai, February 12:: A decade before America discovered sushi, a restaurant in a small southern India coastal city, served sashimi from local whole tuna. This small Japanese oasis, called...

By Piyumi Fonseka/Daily Mirror Colombo, February 9: The salaries of Sri Lanka’s tea plantation workers are revised once in two years. The two-year Collective Agreement (CA) between Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) and the trade unions was to be renewed on October 15, 2018. The new agreement which was signed about two weeks ago was not published, as usual. Trade unions...

The time has come to build the economy of Sri Lanka on the foundation of agriculture, Sirisena said addressing the nation on Sri Lanka's 71 st. Independence Day. He also opposed the formation of a National Government with only one party as an ally.