Food Talk

Well here I sit eating some pate. Pate is a traditional dish of I’m not exactly sure what. It seems like millet. Its served as a big soft white ball from which you pull apart pieces and dip them in the accompanying sauce. Members of my family eat pate daily and the first time I tried it was outside with my brothers one evening. Following their lead I dipped my fingers into the pate to pull a piece apart. What I didn’t expect was that pate is served scorchingly hot and my tender fingers couldn’t mimic their course, tough hands. Thankfully when I’m served pate now, they provide me with a fork which makes eating much less painful. The other common traditional dish is fufu which I had heard of and will have for the first time this coming Sunday. I’m kind of excited since I know it’s a common meal all over Africa. Although I don’t know of what it consists I did read that it’s nutritional value is about the same as eating a paper bag.