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Dinner with Dr. Ssenoga Dickson and wife Liz
Cooking on a three stone hearth.
| Steamed plantain or matooke is the staple dish. Add to this
cassava, Irish (potatoes), sweet potato, yams, millet, and rice. For
vegetables there may be cabbage or kale. Chicken, beef and goat are
the meat dishes, and as a special treat there may be tilapia from Lake
Victoria. A sauce of g-nuts might be offered, too. Hand
washing is ritual. A servant
brings soap, a wash basin and pitcher to the table before and
after eating. The "after" part is because the fingers are often the
implement of preference. Even a
Observe the practice for conversation. In some households eating is serious enough that conversation is foregone, especially by children. |
