boring food?
Aug. 14th, 2012 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwIn an article about what runners training at a Kenyan marathon place eat, there is this:
"And they eat pretty healthy, as do most Kenyans who have food. As I looked at the lean, quiet, sinewy young men and women sitting down to dinner, I saw plates piled high with carbohydrates.
'It's just normal Kenyan food — vegetables, spaghetti, ugali,' said Wilson Kipsang, captain of the Kenyan marathon team.
The national dish, ugali, is a corn mush made from cornmeal and water that has the consistency of mashed potatoes and almost no taste; Kenyans usually sop it into whatever else is on the plate. Githeri is a mixture of boiled corn and kidney beans. Sukuma wiki is chopped boiled kale, which desperately needs Tabasco sauce. The competitive runners seldom eat meat. Beans supply most of their protein. For a snack, the runners eat roasted corn on the cob. No salt."*
I looked up recipes for the dishes mentioned, and as described on the internet, at least, they aren't quite as unadorned as he implies. The sukuma wiki recipes have tomatoes and cayenne pepper or similar. I'm going to try to make some of them over the next few days. One of the things that attracted me was the specific mention of no salt. We ate at Veggie Galaxy last night. It was our second time there. The first time was to host a visiting colleague of Arthur's, who was very pleased at the selection of vegan desserts. Both times, I have felt that some of the food was so salty it was unpleasant to eat (what does a mushroom chickpea burger taste like? salt). Last night, Arthur agreed with me. We haven't tried the desserts. Maybe they aren't. The waiter asked "how is everything?" I asked if I could tell him the truth, and when he said yes, I told him my opinion. He was very flustered, very upset, and offered me free food. We pointed out that I had eaten my whole dinner and didn't need anything else, but he kept offering. I said that I know I'm an oddity in America, where people like very salty food, and we left him a good tip. I hope I didn't totally ruin his evening.
Also, what sounds like food to me (soybeans & rice), but is a substitute for poop in toilet tests
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/08/08/158447235/why-is-the-worlds-largest-foundation-buying-fake-poop?ec=shots&ps=storycategory
*http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/08/12/158568459/on-the-road-to-olympic-gold-kenyan-marathoners-fuel-up-on-carbs
"And they eat pretty healthy, as do most Kenyans who have food. As I looked at the lean, quiet, sinewy young men and women sitting down to dinner, I saw plates piled high with carbohydrates.
'It's just normal Kenyan food — vegetables, spaghetti, ugali,' said Wilson Kipsang, captain of the Kenyan marathon team.
The national dish, ugali, is a corn mush made from cornmeal and water that has the consistency of mashed potatoes and almost no taste; Kenyans usually sop it into whatever else is on the plate. Githeri is a mixture of boiled corn and kidney beans. Sukuma wiki is chopped boiled kale, which desperately needs Tabasco sauce. The competitive runners seldom eat meat. Beans supply most of their protein. For a snack, the runners eat roasted corn on the cob. No salt."*
I looked up recipes for the dishes mentioned, and as described on the internet, at least, they aren't quite as unadorned as he implies. The sukuma wiki recipes have tomatoes and cayenne pepper or similar. I'm going to try to make some of them over the next few days. One of the things that attracted me was the specific mention of no salt. We ate at Veggie Galaxy last night. It was our second time there. The first time was to host a visiting colleague of Arthur's, who was very pleased at the selection of vegan desserts. Both times, I have felt that some of the food was so salty it was unpleasant to eat (what does a mushroom chickpea burger taste like? salt). Last night, Arthur agreed with me. We haven't tried the desserts. Maybe they aren't. The waiter asked "how is everything?" I asked if I could tell him the truth, and when he said yes, I told him my opinion. He was very flustered, very upset, and offered me free food. We pointed out that I had eaten my whole dinner and didn't need anything else, but he kept offering. I said that I know I'm an oddity in America, where people like very salty food, and we left him a good tip. I hope I didn't totally ruin his evening.
Also, what sounds like food to me (soybeans & rice), but is a substitute for poop in toilet tests
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/08/08/158447235/why-is-the-worlds-largest-foundation-buying-fake-poop?ec=shots&ps=storycategory
*http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/08/12/158568459/on-the-road-to-olympic-gold-kenyan-marathoners-fuel-up-on-carbs
