Where the wild food grows

Where the wild food grows Over the years of living abroad, Rasa and I have learned not to ask what we are eating and where it comes from.  But I could not resist running these pictures, shedding some light on where all that fine African cuisine comes from. Of course you have the world staple of maize (corn), which was mostly grown in southern Cameroon. As we moved north, the staple crop changed to sorghum.  The main way of eating this was to mash it up and serve as a sticky paste like achu. I had to include a picture of pork in the Muslim north.  When faced with starvation, I guess people really will eat anything. Fish made up a major part of the diet anywhere there was a body of water.  Here are some elaborate fish nets. Then there is the traditional way of catching them with stick and line. A lot of the crops are dried out along side the road.  This is mostly to preserve them but the road is used because there are not many other flat dry places to do it. This lady was laying out okra and some basil leaves.  Makes a great stew for your achu. This is it for the random pictures.  The next blog will be about our not so near-death experience with a 'lion' in the national park. Robert J Kent Jr- robjkentjr@gmail.com Water Resource Policy Adviser www.robrasa.com Voice Mail: +1 (631) 458-1119 Skype ID: rob-rasa LinkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo Contact  |  Support Us  |  Home  |  Books              all content ©2006-2009 click to REMOVE your email Robert & Rasa's rubbernecking