When customers come into her family's restaurant in Anaheim looking for naan or chicken tikka masala, Dewmini Gamalath can't help but chuckle.

Another worrisome matter is that Sri Lankans do not seem to be eating enough protein. “Sri Lankans obtain nearly 72% of their calorie requirement through carbohydrates (mainly refined), while only 10% ...

Some 12,000kg of white rice, 1,500 coconuts and 300kg of cashew nuts are some of the ingredients for a very special Sri Lankan recipe. It's the world's biggest ever kiribath, or milk rice cake, a ...

In Sri Lanka, rice is the staple. ... whereas I could sell as many 400–500 kilos of white rice. Today, it is totally different. People consume red rice increasingly due to health factors.

“By the 1940s, Sri Lanka had to import 60 percent of the rice needed for the country’s meagre six million population,” says Marambe.In the following decades, refined wheat flour and white bread rose ...