When I was young my mother used to sing a song to my brothers and me called, “I’m a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch.
According to The Kenya Settlers’ Cookery Book and Household Guide, which was first published in 1928, there is a TEST FOR MUSHROOMS. I quote: “With mushrooms one cannot be too careful.
“The shed is burning! The shed is burning!” shouted Cosmos Daka, Chris’s Zambian banana manager, over the radio just as we were finishing breakfast a few days before Christmas.
The baobab tree, with its ancient skin and root-like limbs, levitates above our landscape. To me it’s the n’anga of trees. The magical medicine man. The traditional healer.
I love learning. I especially love learning new things about ethnic food.
We make stock all the time, and we use stock all the time. In soups. In stews. In risotto. In quinoa or couscous.
