Try, Try, and Try Again

I didn’t try cooking Indonesian food on my own until I went away to college. Even though I was able to get some recipes from Julia over the phone, I still had to rely on my taste memory to finetune the dishes I loved as a child. They didn’t always taste the way I remembered, but it was a start. After twenty years and many trials and errors, I can finally say that I can cook my favorite dishes almost as good as Julia can.