Balinese Cooking: Offerings and Spice
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Origin
Balinese cooking — the cooking of the Hindu-majority island within the predominantly Muslim Indonesian archipelago — is the most internationally celebrated of Indonesia's regional traditions and the most directly connected to ritual. Balinese cooking has a religious dimension that permeates its daily practice: food offerings are prepared daily for the Balinese Hindu gods, and many preparations exist in both a ceremonial form (for offerings and festivals) and an everyday form.
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Description
Balinese culinary techniques.
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The Thread
—Javanese cooking (same base tradition — different regional expressions), Thai cooking (same lemongrass-galangal paste tradition — different aromatics), Philippine adobo (same Southeast Asian island pi
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Flavour Context
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