Posts Tagged ‘food’
Ode to Africa Bite
No, this is not a restaurant whose name is also an imperative sentence. “Bite” is Kinyarwanda for, loosely, “What’s up?” And Africa Bite is my favorite lunch joint in Kimihurura the neighborhood where I stay. You can slop as much food as you can carry, on a giant, thick clay plate, and [...]
The universalities and idiosyncracies of civil service
The mail in Kigali works. I can finally vouch for it personally.
It takes a while–one month, door to door, for a package from my mom. Which doesn’t sound so bad, except she thought she was paying for it to arrive in four days. Well, she did pay for that. What she [...]
It is your moral responsiblity to begin growing rice
Food prices are high, blah blah, we all know. Not that that’s not important.
But this seems more important: Donors–who presumably (she says with typical glibness) apply the same sound business judgment to their philanthropy budgets as they do to the books of the corporations that made them all that money in the first place–have [...]
What do white people know about exotic plants, anyway?
That stuff in the garden I thought was bamboo? It’s sugar cane.
This is just the latest in a long, long list of things I am ignorant about. Like lemons. They start out so small and round and green I thought the current object of my affection was a lime tree.
My lesson in [...]
Sparing you the suspense: Here’s what I eat and drink in Rwanda
My morning meal was so remarkably German (smoked sausage and cheese) that it struck me I should maybe put a little post up about food. There’s so much to be said about food here that one of my roommates, who’s here doing a documentary project, is basically blogging only about food. I can’t [...]
The contradictions of cleanliness
The first thing they tell you when you say something like, “I’m going to the middle of Africa,” is Don’t drink the water.
This is obvious, mostly, and there’s a whole host of good reasons why—last time I was here, there was a cholera outbreak linked to drinking water. Then there’s a whole category of [...]
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