Walking the Jakarta Streets with Laksmi

October 8, 2002

…Therefore, in Ki Ageng’s life, food appears as a good “companion”. It plays important roles, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. It is what prevents daily routines form becoming monolithic. Pak Joyoboyo’s roast chicken can produce different moods: bacchanalian mixed with sexism (the chicken breast is very “soft, nice and brown”); semeleh, because behind the desire aroused by “the de

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