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MY LIFE IN FOOD ROMESH RANGANATHAN

  My main memory is mutton curry with white rice, dhal and maybe some cabbage or spinach. I’m vegan now, but back then I ate a lot of meat and that dish was the thing we’d always get excited about. In Sri Lankan food, you also have ‘short eats’ (small snacks) — vade and stufflike that. Dosa, too. She used to

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