...oray into obeying a cookbook was an unsuccessful attempt at imitating school cuisine which she dumped in the trash in a choleric gesture lasting no lo... ...eautiful hair. She contrasted the two and was fascinated by this attempt of Indonesian society to allow women to be modern as long as they stayed dem... ...al to their jobs in San Ysidro or San Diego; and from there, like a beggarly Indonesian caricature artist instead of the successful artist that she wa... ...ch with its own provincial language; the provincial languages, Javanese, and Indonesian all spoken in Java; those calls to prayer from distant mosques...

...ystems… that mostly colonized, or infiltrated other ecosystem areas like the Indonesian jungle, the jungles of Borneo, Malaysia, and the Amazon Rai... ...diversity food plants to live on you get the Irish potato famine, you get the Indonesian rice crop failure. China suffered for thousands of years fr... ...a layer cake, the layering of dead meat: cold cuts, the layered taste of haute cuisine food, the layered taste of expensive wine, the layered-look in...