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Becoming Indonesian: Are You What You Eat?

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February 27th 2012
"The only thing I think I like better than talking about food is eating." (Don DeLillo) It would be near impossible to condense the diversity of Indonesia's cuisine into one single blog, especially considering that I have only spent no more than four or five months in Indonesia over the course of my life. More than this, I have spent most of my time there on the main island of Java, ... 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