Tanzanians don’t eat much bread. The stuff you can get is dry, thin and tasteless, though it’s brought out as a delicacy for visitors! I knew before coming here that I’d have to make my own and set about learning how. I learnt about different types of flours and how […]
For Australians, a common image of Tanzania (or pretty much any African nation) is little mud huts, women cooking over charcoal and children carrying water on their heads. Many times as we were preparing to leave Australia, people asked us, ‘Will you have running water and electricity in Tanzania?’ We reminded […]
I love to cook. Many expats employ a cook for a number of reasons, but I don’t because cooking is a significant de-stresser for me. Tanzanian meals tend to be high in fat and carbs, but they don’t really do baking or desserts. You can buy them in towns but […]
What’s the story you tell about yourself? In this series we’ve looked at three ‘iCatechisms’, digital summaries of Christianity: Two Ways to Live, ‘the big story’, and 321. Each of these iCatechisms takes a slightly different angle, but let’s return to a question I’ve been posing: why take one angle and […]
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