Culinary - As Ritual, Entertainment, Medicine and Poison

Kampoeng Dreamland (7-Lifestyle) Economical Shopping - Eating and drinking for most people is just a necessity of life.

But not for the Javanese who still adhere to Javanese Local Wisdom.

Eating and Drinking can be interpreted as Ritual, Entertainment, also Medicine and Poison at the same time.

My late mother always included food in healing her children.

This he always did when his children were sick. Besides bringing the concoction of medicine, he also asked his sick child, "What do you want to eat?"

Surprisingly, our illness was not prolonged, aka immediately healed.

He once advised me, "If one day you really want to eat or drink anything? So don't delay, eat or drink what you want right away. Because there is medicine in it."

Once upon a time, I visited a friend's house who was sick. He felt weak, and when I was talking with him, he suddenly said he wanted to eat Jengkol.

Even though as far as I know, he hates Jengkol the most. Never mind eating, seeing and smelling it, he's already angry.

So I immediately asked permission to leave for a while. Secretly, I actually wanted to buy him Jengkol.

Sure enough, when I returned to his house, with Jengkol. He immediately took rice, and ate his Jengkol with enthusiasm.

After an hour, he seemed to be healthy from his illness for 3 days.

And unexpectedly, after 2 days, he reported that from the doctor and laboratory tests, he had blood sugar.

Where Jengkol is one of the most effective drugs to lower blood sugar levels.

That's a glimpse of my experience, addressing culinary.

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Kuliner sebagai Ritual, Hiburan, Obat dan juga sekaligus Racun.

Makan dan Minum bagi sebagian besar orang hanya merupakan kebutuhan hidup.

Tapi tidak untuk orang Jawa yang masih memegang teguh Kearifan Lokal Jawa.

Makan dan Minum bisa diartikan sebagai Ritual, Hiburan, juga Obat dan sekaligus Racun.

Almarhum Ibu saya selalu menyertakan makanan dalam menyembuhkan anak-anaknya.

Hal ini selalu ia lakukan ketika anak-anaknya sedang sakit. Selain ia membawakan obat racikannya, ia pun tanya kepada anaknya yang sedang sakit, "Kamu lagi ingin makan apa?"

Anehnya, sakit kita pun tidak berkepanjangan, alias langsung sembuh.

Ia pernah berpesan kepada saya, "Jika satu saat kamu ingin sekali makan atau minum apa saja?, Maka jangan ditunda, langsung makan atau minum keinginan mu itu. Karena ada obat di dalamnya"

Pernah satu saat, saya berkunjung ke rumah teman yang sedang sakit. Dirinya merasa lemas, dan saat saya sedang berbincang bersamanya, tiba-tiba ia bilang ingin makan Jengkol.

Padahal setahu saya, dirinya paling benci dengan Jengkol. Jangankan makan, melihat dan tercium baunya saja, ia sudah marah-marah.

Lantas langsung saja saya minta izin keluar sebentar. Diam-diam sebetulnya saya mau membelikan dirinya Jengkol.

Benar saja, saat saya kembali ke rumahnya, dengan membawa Jengkol. Ia langsung mengambil nasi, dan memakan Jengkolnya dengan semangat.

Selang satu jam, ia seperti sudah sehat dari sakitnya selama 3 hari.

Dan tidak disangka, selang 2 hari, ia mengabarkan, bahwa dari dokter dan tes laboratorium, ia terkena gula darah.

Dimana Jengkol adalah salah satu obat termanjur untuk menurunkan kadar gula darah.

Begitulah sekilas pengalaman saya, menyikapi kuliner.