Cross Culinary Pollination
I was recently at a dinner party that some friends threw. The women
who prepared the food are both from The Netherlands. One is from
Tiel, the other from Haarlem. To my delight they served Indonesian
food.
Indonesia was, as we know, colonized by The Netherlands.
Manufacturing and trading emporia were set up in Indonesia by the
Dutch.
Since the time of the colonization there has been mutual cultural
influencing going on between The Netherlands and Indonesia and that,
it doesn't take much to guess, shows up in the cuisine.
The phenomenon of culinary cross pollination is very interesting, methinks.
Doreen
posted by Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat @ 2:11 PM
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