Cooking With Memory - Food, Culture & Identity
From The Rice Table by Jeff Keasberry
January 14, 2026 · 14 min · Season 6 · Episode 59
About this episode
This episode explores the connection between food, memory, and identity through a personal Dutch-Indonesian story.
Food is never just food. It’s memory, habit, comfort — and identity. In this special New Year episode of The Rice Table, host Jeff Keasberry shares a personal Dutch-Indonesian story about growing up in the kitchen, learning to cook by tasting, and carrying food traditions across generations and continents. This episode explores Dutch-Indonesian heritage cooking, the meaning of gezelligheid (warmth and togetherness), and why preserving food culture isn’t about nostalgia, but about understandin...
People in this episode
Host: Jeff Keasberry
Topics covered
- food culture
- identity
- heritage cooking
- memory
- traditions
Keywords
- food
- culture
- identity
- Dutch-Indonesian
- cooking
- traditions
- gezelligheid
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Dutch-Indonesian
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