my-halflife: a food photo blog: A sunny day, by the lake

Sunday, June 11, 2006

A sunny day, by the lake

A sunny day, by the lake
Originally uploaded by pradeep jeganathan.

From the 18th-25th May 2006, I was at the Rockefeller Brothers’ International Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, for the conference "Truth and Memory: Resolving the Legacies of Mass Violence," organized Professors Rebecca Bryant and Elizabeth Drexler and funded by the Rockefeller & Fulbright foundations.

Apart of the work and pleasure of conferencing, the Villa of Serbelloni family, where the center is, and its location at the edge of Lake Como an hour north of Milan, just south of Alps, is one of incredible, and one might say in scholarly circles at least, of legendary beauty.

This was my first visit; here are some memories.

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Pradeep Jeganathan was born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he lives and works. He began to cook when he discovered, as an undergraduate in the US, that MacDonald's was terrible. He continued, when he realized that girls like a guy who knows to cook. After he took up photography as a hobby, he got into shooting food. He has eaten a lot of cold meals since, but he hasn't stopped, because taking a photograph, helps him remember what he's eaten. (He eats a lot, and some times, he forgets). His food photos have been published in a variety of international and Sri Lankan print magazines and web sites and his food photo/recipe columns have appeared Zero77 & Spectrum ("Achcharu") and will soon appear in Ink. He's been a featured chef on ETV's The Home Gourmet, his cooking and food photos have been the subject of a feature article in Sri Lanka's Sunday Times; his food blog has also been featured in Femina.in -- the Indian women's magazine.