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Sunday Star Times- 5^th September 2010 (download the original story)

Master Chef judge Simon Gault joins some of the finest chefs in the world in Sri Lanka for a challenge with a twist.

EXPERIMENTING WITH tea to fuse new flavours into food had already captured my imagination when I heard about a chance to go to Sri Lanka, the Isle of Spices and the home of Ceylon tea.

To spend 12 days with chefs from South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and my long-time colleague Shane Yardley from Bistro Lago at Hilton Lake Taupo, as part of Dilmah Tea’s The Chefs and the Tea maker challenge, was an opportunity not to be missed.

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