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Category Archives: Crop harvests
Livingston’s Adventures with Manioc [Cassava] in Southern Africa
Yesterday I had for lunch an African dish with fish and cassava [manioc] in a delicious sauce. This reminded me of the oft negative descriptions of the crop as being something less that wonderful; as written by David Livingston : The … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Crop harvests, Cuisine, David Livingstone
Tagged Africa, Agriculture, Cassava, David Livingston, David Livingstone, Manioc
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Coptic Easter and A Feast in Rural Egypt – Recipes Included
With Easter upon us, I’m sharing my blog about the holiday in Upper [southern] Egypt: During the years that I spent a good deal of my time working and living in Upper [southern] Egypt while conducting doctoral research, I was … Continue reading
Posted in Coptic, Crop harvests, Cuisine, Easter, Egypt, Egypt-Ancient, Egypt-Recent, Feasts, Food, Nile Valley
Tagged Ancient Egypt, arab food, aysh, bamya, Clarified butter, Coptic Easter, Egypt, food, gargiir, Kishk, Mallow Greens, mulukhiyya, Nile, Okra, Recipes, roast chicken, water buffalo, Water Buffalo Shanks
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Happy Raisin Christmas and a Sultana New Year | Rachel Laudan
A holiday blog from Rachel Laudan about raisins, with a global view. Afterwards, be sure to check out Rachel’s newly published book, Cuisine and Empire – enjoy! …So although I don’t normally do single ingredient (commodity) pieces, for Christmas this … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Crop harvests, Food
Tagged Christmas, Christmas cake, Christmas dinner, Cooking, Holidays, Home, New Year, Rachel Laudan, Raisin
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The Filāḥa Texts Project: Medieval Books of Crop and Animal Husbandry
After some months, The Kutub al-Filāḥa – or Books of [Arabic] Husbandry – is back online and with new materials. It is the only source (I’m aware of) that has been systematically documenting medieval Arabic manuscripts on these topics – and … Continue reading
Posted in Andalus, Arabic, Botany, Crop harvests, Egypt - Medieval, Europe - medieval, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants, Livestock, Manuscripts
Tagged Al-Andalus, Anglosphere, Arab, Arab people, Arabic language, Bibliography, English language, MENA, Middle East, North Africa, research, Translation, Yemen
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The Long Dry Season Comes to Central Africa
Our weather consists of two seasons: Rainy and Dry. The latter, beginning in late June, lasts about three months, and the rainy season the rest of the year. Well, there is also quite a short dry-ish season in December-January. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Agriculture, Crop harvests, Goats, Imbo Plain, Lake Tanganyika, Living here
Tagged crop products, Doom Palm, Dry season, June, Lake Tanganyika, oil palm, Oil Palms, popular sport, Rain, Rainy, small enterprise, village folks, Wet season
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The Social Life of Beans in Burundi – Part 1
Dry beans are the most important food in Burundi. Being Burundian is associated with beans – their growing, processing, sales and eating. Consumption of beans cuts across all socioeconomic and ethnic lines in the country; they are a truly unifying, … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Africa-General, Agriculture, Burundi, Colonialism, Crop harvests, Cuisine, East central Africa, Social Life
Tagged Africa, Bujumbura, Burundi, Common bean, Fertilizer, food, Hutu, Intercropping, Phaseolus vulgaris, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tutsi, Twa
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Colonial Musings on Mount Cameroon: Out with the Plantains! In with the Coffee & Sugar!
Colonial world views were, on the whole, extraordinary. Explorers and missionaries marched out to record, save and reorder the world according to notions of Progress that placed Europeans at the apogee of Civilization (self-defined) – and ‘Everyone Else’ pretty far … Continue reading
