Story of Bali, Indonesia

These streams always appear dirty because they pick up soil along the way and are sometimes used for refuse. Viral hepatitis is endemic and carried in the irrigation and bathing streams. Malaria is rare but still endemic in the northern part of the island. However, it is quite common on the neighboring island of Lombok.

Of course, food is a critical aspect of life in Bali. People of all ages tend to be thin and obesity is very unusual. No one goes hungry because of the low cost of food, the availability of natural fruit family support and sharing, and the food served at the frequent festivals. Rice is a-staple (two or three times a day), but vegetables, meat (beef, pork, and chicken), and seafood (less in the mountains) are also consumed. The food is spicy and often hot with chopped peppers. Spice Islands, a historical name for Indonesia, was not a misnomer. There are other special flavorings.

In the air was a powerful, complex smell, acrid and pungent, of burnt feathers fish, and frying coconut oil. I was to find this a daily smell, punctual and inevitable as the morning smell of coffee at home. It came chiefly from sra, a paste of shrimps that had once been ground, dried, mixed with sea-water then buried for months to ferment It was used in almost everything, fried first to develop the aroma. It was unbelievably putrid. An amount the size of a pea was more than enough to flavor a dish. It gave a racy, briny tang to the food, and I soon found myself craving it as an animal craves salt. Her sweets were even stranger. For lunch would end perhaps with corn and grated coconut mixed with a syrup of palm sugar, soggy little balls of rice-paste treacherously filled with more syrup, or a sliced pineapple to be eaten with salt, red pepper and garlic.

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