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Back home to Bali: banana leaf snapper with sambal and coconut salad – recipe

With grating, pounding and folding, this hands-on Balinese feast demands cooking with care and intentionGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastIt’s five o’clock in the morning. My niang (grandmother) is bent over her mudbrick stove with a bamboo pole in her right hand, stoking the freshly lit fire. “It’s better to fill your mind with nice thoughts when you’re cooking,” she says. My niang and I have been cooking together for four years now. Our conversations in her kitchen – a traditional open-air pavilion with a wood-fired cooktop – are what brought me home to Bali. Continue reading...

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