foods and cooking
Essential Cuisine for Nubian Culture
Traditional foods and styles of cooking in the Upper Nile Valley are essential aspects of Nubian cuisine and culture, according to a recent news report. Writing in The Arab Weekly, Mohamed Abu Shanab asserts that the Nubians expertly blend local food sources into their meals. The verdant fringe of agricultural land along the Nile has […]
Soups and Such from Hutterite Kitchens
Mary-Ann Kirkby, author of the best-selling I Am Hutterite, has come out with another work on Hutterite culture, particularly their cooking, which she has been promoting during a recent book tour in Alberta. Kirkby spent her early childhood in a Hutterite colony in Manitoba but in 1969, when she was 10, her father had serious […]
Ju/’hoansi Cope with Droughts
Sporadic failures of rainfall in Namibia used to prompt coping measures by the Ju/’hoansi that helped foster their peacefulness, though the situation is different today due to the current drought. Reports indicate that it is the worst drought to hit the region in at least 30 years. In a normally arid country, rainfall measured during […]
New Film Describes Malapandaram Forest Life
A recent 40-minute documentary film chronicles the lives of some Malapandaram who still live nomadically much of the year in the Kerala forests. The New Indian Express, a major English language daily that serves South India, published a story last week describing the film. R. Gopinathan, the filmmaker, spent six months working on his documentary, […]
Fipa Vitality
Last Friday, AllAfrica.com, an important source of news about Africa, carried a story about the cultural diversity of the Rukwa Region of Tanzania, particularly the Fipa people—or Wafipa, as they are also called. An article by Willis (1989a) indicated that finger millet (Eleusine coracana) was the primary staple crop of the Fipa, but according to […]
Amla Fruit in India
The Indian state of Sikkim has launched a project to encourage people from Lepcha villages to plant amla saplings because of all the benefits they can obtain from their fruits. According to a news report last week, the Sikkim Medicinal Plant Board, part of the state Forest Environment and Wildlife Management Department, began the campaign […]
The Badass Governor General
An international controversy is finally dying down over the way the Governor General of Canada, Michaelle Jean, showed respect for Inuit traditional ways during a visit to Nunavut a couple weeks ago. On the first day of her trip to Canada’s Arctic, May 25, she visited the community of Rankin Inlet, on Hudson Bay, to […]
