This type of story gives one faith in lawyers again…
Lawyers Weekly Australia reports
Eresha De Zoysa isn’t just a special counsel at a national law firm – she is also the co-owner of a burgeoning spices business, which not only allows her to bring family recipes to life, but also embrace her heritage in ways she hadn’t done so before.
Having been born in London, growing up in Sydney and visiting family in Sri Lanka every few years, Sparke Helmore special counsel Eresha De Zoysa (pictured, right) identified as “being from everywhere but also nowhere”.
It wasn’t until the age of coronavirus arrived that she found an avenue through which she could “really embrace, for the first time”, her Sri Lankan culture and heritage.
“Our family has been in the spice business for generations but I never really understood the incredibly rich history or the business of the spice trade. I remember as a child playing hide-and-seek with my cousins in amongst the vats and barrels in the factory adjoining my grandmother’s house in Sri Lanka, but I didn’t quite appreciate how reliant on spices I was until 2020 forced us to be locked down inside our homes,” she told Lawyers Weekly.
The uncertainty of the early days of the pandemic saw her, she detailed, in the kitchen cooking food to deliver to family, friends and neighbours, as a means to better connect with people during lockdown.
“Spices are in my blood and I began paying closer attention to the lessons I was taught by my mother and grandmothers,” she said.
