On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:13:17 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Bruce" wrote in message ...
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>On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:33:50 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>>"Bruce" wrote in message
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>>On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:44:43 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
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>>>I'm pretty sure when people talk about "Anglo-Saxon" cooking, they mean
>>>English cooking of the 19th and 20th Century.
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>>Yes. In the Netherlands, things slowly started to improve in the late
>>60s, with the French and Italian influence. Chinese too, but not so
>>much for home cooking. Indonesian cuisine had always been a factor.
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>>Pretty much here too, although curries were popular back in the day.
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>>I got hooked on Italian cooking very early on and I loved it)
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>I guess what Indian food was for the UK, Indonesian was for the
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>I expect so. Curries never did it for me What kind of food was
>Indonesian?

Onion, garlic, ketjap (slightly sweet soy sauce), cumin, galangal,
ginger powder, lemon grass, coriander, turmeric over
meat/fish/tofu/tempeh/egg. Meat/vegetables in satay sauce. Chilli heat
to taste.

My mother cooked it 50% of the time. I would have liked 100%