Tag Archives: Samuel Baker

Food & Entertainment en route to Discover Nile Sources

Posted on 09/10/2010 by dianabuja

Following the debacle of the yams, described here,Sir Baker goes on to detail other local crops and collected wild foods in Obbo, [currently Northern Uganda], where he and his wife and their party stayed for a time in 1860s on … Continue reading →

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A Colonial Description of Making Green Plantain Cider

Posted on 01/08/2010 by dianabuja

Samuel Baker loved to talk about local food processing techniques in his mid-19th Century African travel documentaries, which is fortunate for those of us trying to trace foods and their processing prior to modern times in Africa. Here is what … Continue reading →

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Elephant Foot BBQ’d in a Pit – A Colonial Favorite in South-Central Africa

Posted on 09/11/2009 by dianabuja

“A long march, to prevent biliousness, is a wise precaution after a meal of elephant’s foot. “ Elephant hunts – and elephant eating – were common pastimes during colonial incursions into Africa. A detailed narrative of the hunt, the cooking … Continue reading →

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Sorghum ‘Stew’, Dry Land Bamboo – & Spatial Analysis in the Gum Arabic Belt of Sudan

Posted on 07/09/2009 by dianabuja

The last blog  entry mentioned that in the area of the Blue Nile in which Sir Samuel Baker was traveling in 1861 there had been extensive stands of dry land bamboo, and that in the early 1990’s I was part … Continue reading →

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How to Air-Dry Game Meat and Prepare Nutritious Foods for Safari, 1862

Posted on 04/09/2009 by dianabuja

During their explorations of the White and Blue Niles in the mid 19th Century, Sir Samuel Baker and his wife Florence seem to have gone comfortably native – at least when it came to food.  Baker’s travel journals provide more information on … Continue reading →

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