Indonesian Cuisine (wk8)
A brief History: Indonesia’s cooking techniques and ingredients merge with influences from India, the Middle East, China and Europe. New World produce brought by Spanish and Portuguese traders before the Dutch colonized the islands was also a big influence in Indonesian cuisine. Indonesia consists of five large islands and thousands of smaller islands, with a … Read more
Coffee Experience (wk7)
A Brief History: According to a coffee history legend, an Arabian shepherd named Kaldi was one day watching his goat herd. He noticed that some of the goats were eating the berries from a bush. After eating and chewing red coffee berries, the goats became friskier and couldn’t get to sleep. Kaldi then gathered some … Read more
Kenyan Cuisine (wk6)
A Brief History: Kenya is located in East Africa and borders Somalia to the northeast, Ethiopia to the north, Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west, Tanzania to the south, and the Indian Ocean to the east. The country covers a total of 582,600 square kilometers. Several hundred years ago, merchants arrived from the … Read more
