Sri Owen Indonesian Food: The new edition by award-winning food writer, with 20 new recipes on modern cooking

Sri Owen Indonesian Food: The new edition by award-winning food writer, with 20 new recipes on modern cooking

by Sri Owen
Publication Date: 07/11/2024

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A beautiful new edition of seminal work Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food with 20 new recipes to reflect the updates in Indonesian cuisine over the last 20 years.


Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food is the most comprehensive account of this ancient and varied cuisine ever published. Sri Owen, the world's leading authority in Indonesian cooking, provides more than 100 mouth-watering recipes, from staples and basics to food for festivals and special occasions. The recipes are easy to follow and have fascinating introductions which place them in their regional and cultural settings.


The book is split into two parts – in part one a series of introductory chapters examine the role of food in Sri’s life and in Indonesian culture and society, with recipes to accompany. Part two explains the essential ingredients and techniques of Indonesian cookery, with notes on availability and substitutions and discussions of modern developments, again with the relevant recipes and variations to accompany each technique. Painstakingly researched and the product of decades of expertise and recipes passed through generations, this is a must-have book for any curious cook.


From her grandmother’s cherished recipes to classic street food and modernized dishes, recipes include: An aromatic lamb stew; Savoury filled wontons; Javanese chicken soup; Pan-fried tuna with red chilli sauce; Sweet potato and vegetable satay; and Ricotta, guava and chilli ice cream.


This stunning book is repackaged in a beautiful and authoritative format with 20 new recipes – a modern, must-have classic for your shelves.

ISBN:
9781911670292
9781911670292
Category:
National & regional cuisine
Publication Date:
07-11-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Sri Owen

Sri Owen was born in West Sumatra in 1935, the eldest of six daughters, to parents who were both teachers. After secondary school, she attended Gadjah Mada University at Yogyakarta, where in 1961 she met Roger Owen, a young Englishman arrived fresh from Oxford University, with a three-year contract from the British Council as a lecturer. And he was recruited to teach Western History and English Language & Literature.

When his contract ended, Sri accompanied him back to London, where she worked for some twenty years as a translator, broadcaster and producer with the Indonesian Section of BBC Far Eastern Service. Sri and Roger spent two years travelling the world researching The Rice Book, which was first published in 1993 and won the prestigious André Simon Memorial Award, was shortlisted for the James Beard Award, and a year later, was listed in the Observer, among the twenty best food books published in English.

In total, Sri has written twelve successful cookbooks, most recently Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food, which chronicles her life and details the social history and cooking styles of the islands she loves. Sri is a popular international lecturer on Asian cuisine and has run cookery demonstrations, workshops and courses across the globe. Her unrivalled expertise saw her win the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

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