Stretch Goal #1: Two more cookbooks!
about 5 years ago
– Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 04:49:47 PM
You folks have sent this galloping along to full funding! But we have 28 days left, so let's add some stretch goals and see what else I can do for you.
Stretch Goal #1: If we make it to $7000, I'm going to throw in, to every single level, a digital copy each of my two cookbooks, Vegan Serendib, and The Marshmallows of Serendib. Vegan Serendib is composed of recipes from Feast, so there's no new content, but it'd make a lovely gift for your vegan friend. The Marshmallows of Serendib offers a dozen additional tropical marshmallow recipes, such as "Chocolate-Dipped Tamarind-Chili" and "Honeyed with Rosewater and Saffron." Marshmallows are traditional holiday sweets in Sri Lanka, and I went on a little bit of a marshmallow binge last year. Read more about them at my Serendib Kitchen site.
Honeyed Marshmallows with Rosewater and Saffron
Funded! AIYEEE!!!!
about 5 years ago
– Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:14:50 AM
That is the sound of me-as-an-elephant, or at least wearing my elephant socks, screaming in delight because just about 14 hours after launch, my Kickstarter for A Feast of Serendib, a Sri Lankan American cookbook, has hit its $4000 goal! Ebooks and paperbacks and hardcovers for all! WOOT WOOT WOOT!
The timing of this was good in terms of letting me relax before teaching, but also due to where in the semester this cookbook project fell.
Let us go and speak with the students about Jamaica Kincaid (the effect of tourism on Antigua) and Meena Kandasamy ("Mulligatawny Dreams") and Preeta Samarasan's _Evening is the Whole Day_ -- ah, that passage on the train where she compares the alluring nasi lemak of Malaysia to dry, sad, British cucumber sandwiches.... It is all so apropos!
(I actually do like cucumber sandwiches quite a bit. But as a metaphor for colonialism... :-) )
