Re: Redefining eternity

On 12/4/2024 6:01 PM, Bruce wrote:

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:41:30 +0000, S Viemeister
<firstname@lastname.oc.ku> wrote:
 

On 12/4/2024 9:50 AM, Bruce wrote:

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 09:42:21 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton
<chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:

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How old are you?  What's the food of your culture like -- especially
the foods it didn't borrow from Indonesia?

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Old school, lower class food from my country was peasant food:
potatoes, a vegetable, a meat. Not unlike English peasant food. Times
started changing during or just after the 60s.
>

Before the 60s, I would think. I spent a couple of months in Amsterdam
in the early 60s, and Indonesian restaurants were already
well-established then.

 Yes and often a combination of Chinese and Indonesian, by Chinese
people. But in people's homes there was only Indonesian food if they
had a specific connection with the country: years spent there, one or
more parents or grandparents from there etc. My mother was born there
so I was lucky.
 

Yes, you were lucky!
I really enjoyed the food in the Indonesian eateries. But do you not think that Dutch folk who enjoyed that food would have tried to copy it at home? I know that's what I did with the Indian foods I tried while at college in Edinburgh. I think I got rather good at it, too! I mix my own spices, rather than relying on commercial mixes.