Assignment

Identify the phrases in this following passage and translate them into Indonesian.

The Comfort of the Kitchen

It was cold and wet winter day in 2002, when I first arrived at my apartment in Rome
overlooking the Giordino degli Aranci.

I didn’t have much of an appetite, though. I was too depressed and lonely.

I had ended a relationship and left my family home in Washington, D.C., to start again with a
job at the United Nations in Rome.

I stared at the beautiful marble counter in the kitchen and thought about all the special meals I
had made for the man I had loved and shared so much of my life with. Braised Afghan-style
lamb stew with burnt eggplant was his favorite, eaten alongside bowls of Levantine-style rice
with broken vermicelli his mother taught me to make.

The next morning, Cristina invited me to host a dinner party with her. I was excited to cook
for strangers in a new city who were not familiar with cuisine from my part of the world. I
chose dishes that would remind me of the comfort of home: koftay – spiced meatballs in a
jammy tomato sauce; chana dahl – lentil soup; tah-dig – saffron-flavoured rice; and brownies
with fragrant notes of cardamon.

I crushed strands of saffron while Cristina sauteed ginger and garlic in olive oil till it turned
bronze. I mixed brownie batter, while Cristina crumbled the cardamon seeds. Whizzing
through the stress of Rome with Cristina on her motorbike, buying our ingredients, then
cutting, mincing and stirring, made me forget momentarily all the pain and heartache that had
paralyzed me. Over dinner, as I laughed with others, I realized for those few hours how lucky
I was.

That meal that began in heartbreak reminded me of all the good things in life.

By Shayma Saadat (a cook and food writer, photographer and stylist, who blogs at “Spice
Spoon”)

Updated February 13, 2015, 12:39 PM

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