Ducks with rice

Ducks eat the bugs and fertilze the field. Eventually they end up as bebek betutu, or Balinese smoked duck (with rice.)

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Rice - or - How I Got Lost in a Rice Paddy and Lived to Tell the Tale

June 12th 2010
I’m sure that most of the Balinese I encountered thought I was just a little nuts. (OK, maybe they thought I was more than a little nuts.) But I took a whole lot of pictures of rice paddies while I was there. There was just something about the shifting colors and light and shadows that I found really beautiful. Rice is extremely important to the Balinese. In addition to being a food stap ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more

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