All you need are peanuts, a bit of oil, and a good old fashioned mortar and pestle. Add a little elbow grease, and pretty ...

Mother and daughter Patricia Tanumihardja and Juliana Evari Suparman share recipes from their Indonesian kitchen.

Few are more traditional than the mortar and pestle. Around for some 37,000 years, the tool is deeply rooted in interactions of humans and food. Originally made to pulverize grains, the mortar and ...