Shanaka’s autobiography is out, and available everywhere including at some of the Lentil restaurants. Lentil as Anything: Everybody deserves a place at the table tells of Shanaka’s childhood in Sri Lanka, his travelling years exploring the lifestyles of indigenous people all around the world, and his creation of the Lentil as Anything pay-as-you-feel vegetarian restaurants.
Winner Australia 
‘Best Fundraising, Charity, Community Book in Pacific’
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012
Winner for ‘Best in the World’ in the same category
Lentil as Anything: Food, Culture, Community is a beautiful, hard-cover book celebrating food, stories, and the cultural diversity of the Lentil as Anything community—with profiles of key chefs at the Lentil as Anything restaurants and their favourite, mouth-watering recipes, interviews with staff members and friends of Lentil as Anything, as well as writings from highly esteemed Australian authors Arnold Zable, Alice Pung, and Tara June Winch.
Since arriving in Australia three years ago from Senegal in West Africa, Ousmane NGom has had a profound impact on many communities through his volunteer work and through his position Continue reading
Footscray’s head chef and manager Ousmane shared his love of African cooking in the October 19 edition of the Melbourne Weekly Times.
He featured alongside other African migrants, all passionate