It was a toss-up for my next destination — Maluku or Nusa Tenggara Timur.
Everyones’ pick?
“Ooooo, Maluku, for sure!”
My pick?
Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT).
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Recipe | Sprouted Sorghum Cake ft. Nusa Tenggara Timur
The first time I brought life into this world?
I was 10 years old.
For children in classrooms across America, it was a rite of passage to sprout a dried lima bean. Each child was provided a plastic ziplock bag, paper towel, lima bean and water. We were taught to “wake up” the bean by re-hydrating it in water, keep it moist with a damp paper towel, and “feed” it with sunlight. Once the foot of a root peeked out, I was a proud momma.
Taking an otherwise forgotten dried bean and coaxing it to life was my first realization that nature’s power was a gift to cherish.
20 years later, I was raising an army of sorghum seeds in the kitchen.
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Recipe | Bose ft. Nusa Tenggara Timur
The most complicated part of bose was how to pronounce it.
Hanna, trip leader and co-founder of Du’Anyam, introduced it as “Bo-ce.” “You know, like the speaker company.”
But Aaron of East Bali Cashews, fellow tour participant and human Google, interjected with, “Nope, that’s pronounced ‘bo-ze’. You’ve been duped.”
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