I’m arrived! And I am starving.. the food that is
served on airplanes is horrible, I couldn’t get a bite of it! My discovering of
this African country will start from a restaurant, I guess. =)
Kenya is a country located on the eastern coasts of
Africa and its cousin deeply reflects its cultural background. Many dishes are
made with food that the Portuguese brought/introduced from Brazil, such as
maize, bananas, pineapple, chilies, peppers, sweet potatoes and cassava. The
conquerors also brought oranges, lemons, limes and pigs from China and from
India; all those products have now become local staples. More contributions to
Kenyan agriculture has arrived from others Europeans, such as the British, who
brought dishes and spices from India.
Due to its division in many ethnic groups, there is
not a national typical dish in Kenya. Most of the communities, however, are
nomads and relies on cattle herding (pastoralism). The traditional Kenyan food
reflect the multi-racial traits of this society. Most of the dishes are simple
and filling, not expensive to make since they consist mainly of corn, maize,
potatoes and beans.
People who lives on the coasts rely also on fish and
they have a more varied diet; people in the inland eat many cow and goat
by-products (meat, milk, cheeses, etc.). rice is a very popular and important
food for Kenyan cousin.
Today I was served ugali,
which is commonly eaten in all the East Africa Great Lakes region; it is a dish
of maize flour, cooked with water to a porridge-like consistency. he traditional method of eating ugali (and the most common in the rural areas) is to roll a lump
into a ball with the right hand, and then dip it into a sauce or stew of
vegetables or meat. Making a depression with the thumb allows the ugali to be used to scoop, and to wrap
around pieces of meat to pick them up in the same way that flat bread is used
in other cultures.
Lunch is the main meal of the day. Usually, ugali, rice or potatoes are served on a large dish that everyone
can reach, using the right hand, and there are vegetables, meat or fish on the
side. Fruit is commonly served in place of sweets.
Even if it is really tasty, due to all the spices that are used, and
delicious, Kenyan cousin is rather poor and many children are undernourished
because they do not have an adequate nutrition, most of all after the big
drought that happened in the last decades.
Ineresting Claudia, thanks. In terms of language, be careful, I think you mean 'cuisine', the French word we use in English, rather than 'cousin', which is a relative, nothing related to food! Also watch out for your subject verb agreements.
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