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Sri Owen was born on 31 March, 1935 in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, is an Indonesian cooking teacher and food writer. Discover Sri Owen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Occupation Cookbook writer and culinary teacher
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 31 March, 1935
Birthday 31 March
Birthplace Padang Panjang, West Sumatra
Nationality Indonesia

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1935

Sri Owen (born 31 March 1935) is an Indonesian cooking teacher and food writer, based in London for most of her life.

She is the author of the first English-language recipe book dedicated to the food of Indonesia, and is recognised as a leading authority on Indonesian cuisine.

Owen was born in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, in what was then the Dutch East Indies, on 31 March 1935.

She was born to a Minangkabau family, in a town at the heart of that culture.

She was the eldest of six children, all girls.

Her childhood was disrupted by Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies; during World War II, millions of Indonesians died of famine, forced labour, and the disruption of society.

1949

Her parents worked as teachers, and the family lived briefly in Jakarta, before settling in Magelang, Central Java in 1949.

Sri continued her education in Yogyakarta and studied English Literature at Gadjah Mada University.

1961

After graduating, she taught at the university and became head of its library; it was there in 1961 that she met Roger Owen, a British Oxford University graduate, who lectured in history in Indonesia for three years.

1962

Sri and Roger married in 1962.

1963

After accompanying her husband back to London in 1963, Sri worked as a translator, broadcaster and producer for the BBC Far Eastern Service for almost 20 years.

1976

Her first cookbook, The Home Book Of Indonesian Cookery, was published by Faber in 1976, and brought together family recipes handed down by her grandmother and carefully recorded by her mother.

Owen went on to write more than a dozen books on the food of Indonesia and other Asian countries.

1984

In 1984, Roger and Sri moved with their two sons to Wimbledon Village, where Sri sold Indonesian dishes and snacks from a shop on the High Street.

2015

A significant mentor was Alan Davidson, author of The Oxford Companion to Food, to whom she eventually dedicated her 15th book, Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food. He influenced her thinking about "foodways"—the ever-evolving totality "of all the food habits in a community or culture".

She argues that rendang, recognised by the Indonesian state as one of the five national dishes, is a Minangkabau dish.

In addition to her writing, Owen has run cookery demonstrations, workshops and courses across the globe, and has appeared on BBC TV with chefs including Raymond Blanc.

The Rice Book was selected by Bee Wilson of the Observer Food Monthly as one of the magazine's top 50 cookbooks of all time.

Owen's most recent book, Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food, is an autobiographical celebration of the cooking of the country of her birth.

Melissa Clark of the New York Times quotes Paul Levy, chairman emeritus of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, siting Owen's food scholarship within the tradition of culinary writers who also opened up to the English-speaking world then-novel cuisines like Elizabeth David (Mediterranean cuisine), Jane Grigson (European cooking, and traditional British dishes), Claudia Roden (Middle Eastern food), and Julia Child (classical French cuisine).

Sri Owen has been described by Nikkei Asia as "the Indonesian food writer credited with introducing her country's cuisine to the world".

She mentored young chef and writer Lara Lee, who also wishes "to share the wonderful cuisine of Indonesia with the world".

The San Francisco Chronicle calls her "an obvious authority on Indonesian cooking" Mayukh Sen described Sri Owen simply as "The Woman Who Changed the Way We Think About Indonesian Food".