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A
chilli vendor in the vegetable market
at Batur sorts her wares.
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The
complex ingredients for Balinese food and ritual offerings are all
committed to memory, no Balinese woman ever needs to consult a cookbook
for a Balinese recipe, although a modern woman might follow a recipe
for dishes from other Indonesian regions.
Many families
now have television sets, and most bale banjar, or community
centres, also have a set where anyone can gather to watch programmes
in Indonesian, English or Balinese. Early evenings are also the time
when the various cooperative organisations meet for discussions and
planning, and there are also informal "drinking clubs", where the
men meet over a glass of tuak (palm brew).
By about
9 pm, doors of the enclosure are closed against any malign spirits
that may be wandering in the night, and the only lights to be seen
in the village are those of twinkling fireflies.
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