Priya Wickramasinghe

Priya Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan born cookery writer. She has lived and worked in Britain for the past 40 years.

She is the author of several books: Spicy and Delicious, The Oriental Cookbook, Leith's Book of Indian and Sri Lankan Cooking, and Food of India.

She has taken part in several Indian cookery programmes for the Yorkshire Television Series Farmhouse Kitchens and has contributed recipes to the books that accompanied the series - Farmhouse Kitchens-3.

In 1993 Priya was the winner of the Cordon Bleu-Independent Cookery competition.

She gave a demonstration at the world-famous literary festival at Hay-on-Wye in 1997 before signing copies of her latest book.. She has also given several demonstrations in London at various food festivals to promote her most recent book. In 2005 she was a Lecturer and Demonstrator at the Abergavenny Food Festival in Wales.

In July 1998 she gave a week-long Sri Lankan cookery course at the Leith's School of Food and Wine, where she has been a guest lecturer for the past 20 years.

For the past 20 years she has been a part-time teacher in Cardiff.

Last Updated 24 March 2006