Banana Bread Tales From Abroad

Can you make banana bread from scratch? Ha! Ha! Ha!

There’s home education, how we are brought up, then education outside the fence. The fence might include living in other countries. The fence has food, because there are human beings. I’ve been lucky to learn about other food from people I met here and there.

Banana bread for example. What is banana doing inside the bread? We grew up in luscious Africa, picking berries and other fruit from trees. Our parents sometimes removed bananas while they were still green. They kept them in a warm part of the house until they were ripe. Time passed. I found myself in north America where banana is inside the bread. They also sell banana muffins. Guess what? I ended up being addicted to the whole thing. I love banana bread, especially the slices they sell at Starbucks. Well! At the last coffee shop left in this town. Another supermarket around the Osborne area also sells nice banana bread, not too dry, not too moist.

Peanut Butter Soup

A friend from Sierra Leone introduced me to peanut butter soup. We were students together abroad. She was cooking beef stew and she added a spoonful of peanut butter. Aaah! Aaah! I stared at her. She said it was an alternative. In Sierra Leone, she would get real peanuts, grind them and throw them in the pot.

Corn bread

In Harlem U.S.A. there was a restaurant that served melt-in-your-mouth corn bread. It looked like a yellow cake to me. I wonder if that restaurant is still there.

Question. What kind of food did you learn from people from other countries, you met along the way?

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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