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27 avril 2015

Voulé à Musicale Plage

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

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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2 mars 2015

Grating coconut

Grating coconut
In Mayotte, coconut and coconut milk are frequently used in cooking. Mataba, one of the most common dishes here, is made by mashing cassava leaves and mixing them with coconut milk, sometimes adding meat or fish later on. Fish and chicken are regularly...
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Tags: mayotte,  food,  women,  coconut,  mahorese,  job,  cooking,  chair,  chop,  cut,  grate,  knife,  prepare,  shell
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15 septembre 2014

Cats and Miss.

Cats and Miss.
School's been back for three weeks now. I've met all my classes, and there's everything from sweetness and light to ear-splitting caterwauling in there. These are some photos of my school. Right at the top is the tropical almond (Terminalia Catappa, if...
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Tags: mayotte,  cat,  food,  dress,  salouva,  kawéni,  pupils,  school,  teacher,  tree,  students,  miss,  building,  badamier,  litter,  mew,  playground
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1 septembre 2014

Alefa Madagascar! Part 2 of 2.

Alefa Madagascar! Part 2 of 2.
The starting point of anything Malagasy is Antananarivo, the capital city, generally shortened to Tana. It's bang in the centre of Madagascar, and it's where all the planes go to and come from. So, logically, this was the starting point of my adventure....
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Tags: house,  food,  rice,  motorbike,  people,  town,  road,  village,  tree,  down,  mountain,  trip,  travel,  republic,  madagascar,  alefa,  voyage,  capital,  city,  paddy
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21 juillet 2014

The Blue Mango Strikes Again

The Blue Mango Strikes Again
Last week, we had a going-away party for two members of the Blue Mango... party during which we learned that a third member was also leaving next month, so we had another going-away party on Friday, where we actually convinced the restaurant owner to...
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Tags: food,  blue,  music,  mango,  brochetti,  restaurant,  musician,  landfill,  ma brochetti,  party
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14 juillet 2014

Hiking around Saziley

Hiking around Saziley
Sunday was a rather hectic day. First, it was the day two of the musicians from the Blue Mango were leaving Mayotte, one forever, the other for a holiday. The one who was leaving forever hadn't been able to come to our last going-away party and I had...
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Tags: island,  mayotte,  food,  water,  black,  white,  beach,  sand,  friend,  walk,  stones,  hike,  saziley
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16 juin 2014

Music

Music
I've been playing quite a bit of music recently. On May 31st, I was roped in to play "film music", which was a new one for me. Mostly cartoon themes such as Some Day My Prince Will Come, Popeye or The Bare Necessities, but the odd tune from films such...
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Tags: food,  school,  blue,  bretons,  music,  mango,  concert,  dance,  folk,  pancakes,  film
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21 avril 2014

Strange food they have here.

Strange food they have here.
These are banana flowers. They grow on the ends of big banana bunches like below. You have a hundred or so bananas spiralling downwards, and a big purple flower on the end. Lots of people eat yellow bananas. Here, green bananas are a vegetable like any...
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Tags: island,  mayotte,  banana,  food,  green,  yellow,  tree,  flowers,  plants,  bunch,  cooking,  reunion,  stew
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2 décembre 2013

On the Art of Little Pots

On the Art of Little Pots
In Mayotte, one of the most useful things you can buy in the local supermarket is a Tupperware (or similar) container. Here, the brand is Eda, so they're Eda containers. They come in all shapes and sizes and are absolutely wonderful. The reason for this...
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Tags: food,  rice,  supermarket,  pasta,  sugar,  cockroach,  flour,  fridge,  insect,  spices,  tupperware,  weevil
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