Comments on: “Excuse me, there’s some food in my bugs!”

By: Rude and Proud of it

Rude and Proud of it — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:33:56 +0000

Life for those women must suck. They are treated like servants.

At any rate, you seemed to like being waited on.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:50:37 +0000

During a recent PASSWORD AUDIT by my bank, they found that I was using the following password:

MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofyDublin

When they asked me why I had such a long password

I replied
”Are you bloomin’ stupid? I was told that my password had to
be at least 8 characters long and include one capital”

By: HP

HP — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:34:19 +0000

As long as I'm in moderation, this recipe looks more traditional.

By: HP

HP — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:20:22 +0000

I found this recipe from the Burundi Goat Rehabilitation Project. I may have to try it myself. There also looks to be a fair number of YouTube videos with recipes for "cassava leaves," e.g., here.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:00:52 +0000

Cool. See if you can also ship someone who knows how to make sombe!

By: HP

HP — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:54:07 +0000

I live near and shop at this place a few times a month. If anyone in the Midwest has frozen cassava leaves, Jim does. I do know they've got palm oil and several varieties of piri-piri sauce, but I've never looked for cassava leaves. (Their African foods tend more toward South Africa -- e.g., their butcher makes fresh boerwors every day.) I'll be up there next week and email you with what I find out. They may be able to ship ingredients to you directly.

By: Drivebyposter

Drivebyposter — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:08:23 +0000

You’ve gotta do an Efe cuisine night.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:35:03 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frozen_cassava_leaves.jpg

Well, I haven’t looked for it in some time. Maybe I ought to start a new search!

By: Eric Lund

Eric Lund — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:36:24 +0000

why not make [sombe] in Florida?

Can manioc tolerate any frost at all? It does occasionally freeze in Florida, even in the southernmost parts of the mainland. The Keys are pretty much frost free, but soil there (and on much of the immediate coast of Dade County, which is at the southern end of the east coast mainland) is basically nonexistent, and the southwestern coast is part of a national park (the Everglades). You might be able to grow it around Homestead, but the people who own the farms around there think (probably correctly) there is more money to be had supplying the US with tomatoes in winter. Maybe a few homeowners grow some plants for their own use, but when I lived in Florida I wasn’t aware of any commercial manioc cultivation.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:29:41 +0000

we are reminded that the people you lived with and studied are called the Efe, and the term “pygmies” is to be avoided (as possibly pejorative, or perhaps not?)
What are your recommendations as to the appropriate terminology?

Good question. I use the word “Pygmy” in these posts because they are stand alone and just “Efe” does not do it. Yet, I left off the statement about the term’s origin. This is inadequate.

What I probably should do is write a post about people’s names (culture names) with some definitions and whenever I use the word “Efe” just link to that post and leave off “Pygmy”

The same applies to “San”/”Bushmen”/”Ju’/hoansi”/”Baswara” which are various words for various similar groups of southern African hunter gatherers, except with these folks it is even more complicated.

A single go-to post would probably be the best idea. Every time I type “Pygmy” I tell myself to go do that. I think the time is near.

Glad you are enjoying the blog!