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From: S Viemeister <firstname@lastname.oc.ku>
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Subject: Re: Redefining eternity
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 19:29:47 +0000
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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:
>>
>>>> How old are you?  What's the food of your culture like -- especially
>>>> the foods it didn't borrow from Indonesia?
>>>
>>> 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.