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Working on Petty Elliott's Home Recipes

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I have always remembered meeting Petty Pandean for the first time at the center garden of AdForce, an advertising agency now known as JWT Jakarta. I was new to the agency. That was ages ago, and both our professions were definitely so far off from what we do now. Who would have thought?

Petty and I lost touch for so long and the next thing I knew, she had made the kitchen as her workplace, and had focused herself on cooking and is an author of Papaya Flower

I read Papaya Flower last year. Having read remnants of memory of her grandmother’s kitchen in Manado and of course the recipes, I could tell instantly that she was as serious about home cooking as we are at Rasamasa.

At Rasamasa, we have been planning share our home cooking with friends abroad as they have asked for translation of our recipes, not by Google Translate, but by us. Translating recipes is easy. The hardest part is making them double elsewhere because some recipes use very specific ingredients that may only be available around our areas. We need to think of alternative ingredients. It is only by collaborating with many open-minded cooks that we can do this.

Petty is a perfect partner to work with on this video recipe. She is very rooted, yet resourceful with her recipes. To top it all off, she and I are both very pragmatic when it comes to reimagining our home cooking for our friends abroad. As long as they still hold true to their character, substitutions are matter of survival.

Rasamasa Taste Ideas is the latest cooking video web series produced for our growing number of friends abroad. For the launch of this series, we collaborate with Petty to share her home recipes for the fall/winter season.

Watch Rasamasa Taste Ideas feats. Dishes by Petty Elliot in October 23, 2014.

 

PS: If you have a personal ingredient that you want us to feature in the next winter/spring season, shoot an email to me at rima.sjoekri@rasamasa.com, and we will try our best to figure it in out for our next season’s series. That way you can show off an exotic alternative dish on your table next season.