chicken wings - Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus.

27 avril 2015

Voulé à Musicale Plage

I was invited to a company voulé the other day, a barbecue on the beach with the company I work with giving English lessons to adults. The rainy season is reaching its end now, but there are still some strong bursts of rain occasionally, and I was caught...

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Tags: banana, food, chicken wings, beach, english, barbecue, kebab, voulé, meat, company, eat, full

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9 mars 2015

The Nutrition Transition

A rather interesting article turned up in the newspaper this week. Mayotte has been in the middle of a nutritional transition (poetically put) for quite a few years now. From not having enough to eat and suffering from various lacks and deficiencies,...

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Tags: mayotte, cassava, food, water, chicken wings, rice, supermarket, coconut, oil, beef, diabetes, fat, sugar, nutrition, cholesterol, malnourished, obesity, overweight, pregnancy, underweight

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4 novembre 2013

Chicken wings again

Mayotte is a French department and therefore receives all the French adverts. The TV adverts stay exactly the same, advertising things that haven't made it as far as Mayotte yet, but the paper adverts are tailored to local taste, one might say. You might...

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Tags: mayotte, chicken wings, mabawas, advertising, telephone, orange

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6 août 2012

Population Study episode 1 : Bouénis

Bouéni means "madam" in Shimaoré. It's the name given to all married women, or those who look old enough to be married. It's more than a name, though, it's a way of life. Bouénis are the ones who have all the power in Mahorese societies. They're the ones...

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Tags: mayotte, salouva, women, chicken wings, beautiful, bouéni, market, wedding, children, hair, m'biwi, married, poverty

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21 mai 2012

Hot country, cold chain.

This singularly appetizing photo is of several cardboard boxes of mabawas - chicken wings again. What the photo doesn't show is the large yellow and red sign just above the food, saying "DO NOT OPEN THE BOXES". Written in French, which most people here...

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Tags: mayotte, box, food, chicken wings, supermarket, beef, cold chain, shopping list

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22 mars 2012

My Granddaughter Went To Market And She Bought...

We went to the market the other day. The big, covered market in the Place de la République in Mamoudzou. We'd never gone inside before, never really gathered that there was actually something in there, just seen the big pink building from the outside....

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Tags: mamoudzou, banana, breadfruit, cassava, clothes, chicken wings, brochetti, market, kebab, leaves, placenta

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18 octobre 2011

The Gold Rush

Things have been a little complicated recently. First, the strikes started because of the cost of living here. For example : 4.20€ for a 1kg packet of rice, 2.83€ for three large potatoes and 3.50€ for a packet of butter. "Essential" products here are...

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Tags: mayotte, food, mzungu, pupils, butter, chicken wings, cost, dustbin, gas, hunger, living, mabawas, rice, strike, supermarket

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