July 28, 2006
'The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook'
When Sean Williams, an ethnomusicologist, was doing fieldwork in Indonesia, she found the food as intriguing as the music. The scholar, now a professor at Evergreen State College, got used to a breakfast of fried rice with a spicy red sambal sauce, even if she at times longed for cornflakes. Among the Sundanese of west Java, she says, "the more searingly spicy food a foreigner can handle, the more approval (and uproarious teasing) one wins." The scholar describes how they prize the
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