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| Sunday, 5 May 2002 |
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The dancing chef de partie What does Sri Lankan Latin American Dance Champion Anushan Perera do when he is not teaching dancing, performing a cabaret at some top social event or doing a hard days work behind kitchen bars?
What are some of those unforgettable creations? I asked Anushan and pat came the reply. "In my dreams I explored the ocean and came up with a dish called the `Pacific Treasure' consisting of a grilled fresh salmon steak in anchovy and chives butter sauce; the 'Reef Super Six' which is six jumbo prawns sauted with white wine and simmered in a creamy dill and saffron sauce and 'Lagoon Crust' - crab flakes and mushrooms in cream." As for meats there are the 'Big Gun' - a 450 gms of T-bone steaks grilled to your liking served with Madeira sauce, the 'Cropper's Yield; the 'Cowboys Cue'; an 'Eye for an Eye', 'Perfect Match' and the Ranchers Combination for those who want to taste beef, chicken, ox liver, sausage - all at the same time.'' He hasn't forgotten the vegetarians and for them there's 'Health Watch' and for the sweet toothed 'Peach and Cranberry Cobbler', Cherry Jubilee' and Beverly Hill's Apple.' What enticing names for these figments of his dreams! And how long did he take to conceive them? "Just one month for 60 items on our menu and though I like to keep dreaming and changing the menu at least once in three months, our guests do not. For, once they have taken a liking for a particular dish, they want it all the time," said Anushan who, having won the Latin American Dance Championships for ten years in succession since 1990 while working as a chef at the Galadari, switched over to teaching dancing because he "wanted to keep that record." |
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"I am dreaming of the most scrumptious culinary fare - which has
resulted in some of those rare dishes you see in the Galadari's
'California Grill' menu and which items have held and firmly bound some of
our guests to haunt this place ever so often," says Anushan who was
packing his bags to leave for Qatar's Sofitel hotel where he will be
performing at the Sri Lankan Airlines Awards ceremony this week.
