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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Senegal Kitchen



This is a typical Senegal kitchen in the village. Last time in Senegal, I spent a day in the village. I love to watch them cook and prepare a meal. It's amazing! They can cook rice to perfection over a fire and never burn it. We got all these gadgets and equipment and to me it always taste better in the village. Maybe I'm a bit more hungry when I am in the village, I don't know.
I ate something this last trip that were interesting. The sour milk over millet is always interesting, but this time for dessert we had Senegalese yogurt. My friend who lives in Senegal, (whose name I will not identify, because I don't want to embarrass him :) who was with me, leans over and says...this you might want to be very careful with eating...in other words it could make you sick.
Well as always, I say a little prayer, and I partake in it. Well, my friend ended up on the toilet for the next 24 hours and Thank God that I didn't get sick(I did feel bad for my friend....)Now there's a wave of people claiming in the Thies region that Rick is more Serer than *&^#.
I can't help the fact that I didn't get sick...but it sure brought some humor to my friends there.
God is Good.
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  1. Anonymous04 June, 2007 08:24

    hahaha, i did hear about this :) i had a good laugh about it as well...though i did feel bad for him also :)

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