Dark roasted curry powder, a fine attention to the balance of salty-sour-sweet, wholesome red rice and toasted curry leaves, plenty of coconut milk and chili heat. These are the flavors of Sri Lanka.
In Vegan Serendib, novelist and post-colonial academic Mary Anne Mohanraj introduces her mother’s cooking and her own American adaptations, providing an introduction to Sri Lankan American vegan cooking that is straightforward enough for a beginner, yet nuanced enough to capture the unique flavors of Sri Lankan cuisine.
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Cool giant sculpture, Doha airport. Also, receipt from my hot chocolate — $11.34. Eep. There are lots of food and drink options in that airport, but be prepared to pay a premium price for them.
Doha airport continued lovely and fancy. Although I was pretty amused to see how many people were sleeping in the park-like areas. I glanced at a tourist guide, and they said just be careful to keep any valuables tucked under you — take the same precautions you’d take sleeping in
I was a little hungry in the airport at 2 a.m., or rather, I was anxious about not getting hungry, I have a weird thing where I can get a little panicky if I don’t have food on me while traveling, relic of getting stuck on a runway for six
There are many options for beautiful sweets in the Lahore airport, but I have to admit, South Asian sweets are mostly too sweet for me, and I skipped them all.
The Lahore airport has some lovely artwork, but I’ll note for those unaccustomed that at least the main women’s restroom only offers squat toilets. It’s possible there were Western-style toilets elsewhere in the building that I missed? I admit, I was tired enough at that point that when I saw
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.
Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.maryannemohanraj.com
