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Food as an essential element in human life is closely related to gender issues. Traditionally, food and kitchen are conventionally women?s ?world?. Kitchen is the place where women could extend their power, affection, and passion to their families. Women could do those duties through the selection and serving of food. In a more conservative view, men were required to work and earned money while women were required to nurture the household and be responsible to the feeding of the family. Nowadays, the kitchen is not merely women?s zone anymore as more and more men become involved in the cooking duties because more women work and pursue career outside. The idea of liberation and democratization come along with modernization. Consequently, they also influence the order of the formerly traditional society. Like clothes and other commodities that we purchase, food also holds an essential mark as an indicator of somebody?s class in the hierarchy of society. Food we buy and eat also brings symbols which enforce our position in the society. Eating habits also represent meanings and symbols. Food can be perceived as a series of meanings, such as symbolic meaning, economic meaning, cultural meaning, and religious meaning. Food carries a collection of symbols and codes. The exchange of cuisines among societies may result in the advent of the culture of glocalization or hybridization. The term ?glocalization? embraces this blending of local and global cultures. This blend could generate new kinds of cultural practices. Foods which are originally from distant culinary cultures have been adopted and embedded into the local culinary culture. Likewise on the smaller scale, the process of ?domestic glocalization? also occurs within the Indonesians. In Indonesian?s archipelagic context, people could migrate from one island to another island, meaning from one cultural entity into another one. On their migrations, they bring along their native culture with them or vice versa, including cuisine. This circumstance, as a consequence of intermingling and acculturation, stimulates the spread of cuisine to other parts of the archipelago
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