By Jeff Keasberry “You are doing cultural appropriation and making money off it!” – a critic in a recent online discussion. Amid ongoing debates about decolonization and cultural ownership, this accusation was directed at me for writing cookbooks and promoting Dutch-Indonesian cuisine. Some argue that Indo cuisine (Indische keuken) is not a distinct culinary tradition…
Sign up up for our first TIP TALKS in North California. We will be talking about our shared culinary heritage – the food that binds us together! In a true Indo fashion we never stop talking about food. Indo food is at the heart of our community. We make recommendations to friends and family, what…
More than 2,000 people came together to celebrate their heritage at the 27th Holland Festival, held at Gemmrig Park, in Long Beach. For many of the attendees (around 70% with roots in the former Dutch East Indies), it is a yearly reunion with family and friends where they enjoy typical foods from Holland and Indonesia.…
by Felicitas Sloves Read as an Indo refugee treasures prized possessions from Indonesia as her family repatriates to the Netherlands and then eventually immigrated to the USA. Like many other Dutch-Indonesian refugees, our family took only a few meager possessions with us when we made the journey across the Atlantic from Holland to America. I…