Cooking With Memory - Food, Culture & Identity

Cooking With Memory - Food, Culture & Identity

January 14, 2026 · 14 min · Season 6 · Episode 59

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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...

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