Indonesia has more than 17,000 islands and just as many food traditions, which the Western world generally boils down to satay and nasi goreng. Sri Owen was born in Sumatra, moved to the UK in the 1960s and has since done more than almost anyone else to document Indonesian cuisine in English. She travelled, recorded and kept the regions distinct rather than merging them into a single cuisine, and that distinction is the whole point of the book. Here you'll find recipes from across the archipelago, with notes on where they come from and why they take the forms they do. Expect to have to visit an Asian grocery shop, but also expect not to need another book on Indonesia.
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 304
Language: English
First published: 2008, this updated edition: 2023