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Famine food is supposed to refer to food that is consumed in times of great need and which can act as a indication of famine or extreme difficulties, but more often than not, famine food is a derogative expression for local food in remote places that rest of the world knows little or nothing about. […]
It’s been a while since Anette and I decided that we would plaster the inside of our walls with red “banco” mud.
The mason started working this week and has done about 1/4 - and it’s already looking so different!
I love the red soil - it merges so well with the sky, the trees and […]
Before I got my own place in Niger, there was one typical volunteer thing that I hoped I would never have to do: wash my clothes by hand! Now, when Anette and I moved into this house, we inherited a semi-functional washing machine from the family that had lived there before us. The washing machine […]
A great wrong is being done to an entire food culture when indigenous Nigerien foods are referred to as “famine food”, just because the West does not know them. When Hilary Andersson of the BBC came to Niger in 2004-05, her team filmed people eating leaves, and Ms Anderson concluded in her reports that they […]
To have a cup of coffee and a melon by the pool during siestas
To have a blue sky and daily sunshine
To be able to enjoy a fruit a day or even more
To have running water
To live in a house that is a home
To have a family that cares
To have friends who wait for you, even […]
Evening time is when you most often see me putting together something for dinner the coming day. The fun thing for me, is that I rarely do things twice (and even if so, it practically never ends up the EXACT same way…) and since Niger doesn’t have a supermarket where everything is available, you just […]
So the girls thought I went on a shopping spree, which I did, but the thing about Niger is that you never know what you’re going to find, and so when you find something, you buy it! Just like my mother, I love to “have things on hold”, for you never know when you will […]
One of my favourite things to cook are solar cooker casseroles, where I just put in all sorts of stuff and let it cook together.
Today I had mixed carrots, tomatoes, cabbage (a favourite of mine in the solar oven), edible leaves (also known as famine food), spices and some meat (which is the luxury ingredient […]
Anybody visiting our town, will quickly find out that many of the things you once took for granted cannot be bought in a store in Zinder. But that doesn’t mean you have to be without either! One of the things we love to have for weekend breakfasts is yogurt, and since we are Swedes and […]
People often ask me how come I don’t have leather-colored skin, seeing I live in one of the hottest countries in the world which gets such a large portion of the world’s selected sun hours… Well, I do enjoy sunbathing and find few things as relaxing as half an hour in the sun, but the […]
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