Sabtu, 20 Februari 2010

Alex Haley and Another Look at Mande Foodways

Kibbeh balls, recipe below



Writer Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York but his family had roots in the small town of Henning, Tennessee. In the book Roots, Alex Haley traced his family history back to the 1750s Mande village of Juffure. Mande speakers (identified in the primary sources used here as Mandingo and Mandinka) lived in the geographic area of the present-day countries of Burkina Faso, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana, among others. The Mande developed distinctive dishes through cooking alternative sources of protein like beetles and grasshoppers during lean times. After the rains and harvest came, the Mande diet changed drastically with villagers feasting on meat three times a day until they completed the harvest. I found a description of a group of Mandingos that served a guest an Arab dish called kibbeh which is a ball or torpedo-shaped fried croquette stuffed with minced beef or lamb. “So delicious did I find it,” writes traveler Theodore Canot, “that, even at this distance of time, my mouth waters when I remember the forced meat balls of mutton, minced with roasted ground nuts, that I devoured that night in the Mandingo town of Kya.” Muslim traders from North Africa must have introduced Kibbeh to the Mande people who incorporated it into their West African foodways. West Africans during the slave trade and later Arab immigrants introduced Kibbeh to Brazilian foodways. Here are some Kibbeh ball recipes one traditional the other vegan, enjoy!



Traditional Kibbeh ball recipe: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18558097



Vegan Kibbeh ball recipe:
http://www.messyvegetariancook.com/2009/01/13/baked-tempeh-kibbeh/



Appearances



Sunday February 21, 2010

11 am Service The Hollis Presbyterian Church, “4 Essential Prayers for Our Children” Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie

12:30 soul food sampling

1:45-3:00 Lecture, Book Sale, and Book Signing, Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie



Directions

Throgs Neck Bridge and stay toward your left all the way to the end of the Clearview Expressway and stop at the light at Hillside Ave . Make a right turn on to Hillside Ave. and get in left lane. Go several lights and turn left at Francis Lewis Blvd. Come all the way down FL Blvd. until you get to 104th Ave. and make a right turn. Come down to 196th street and see church on corner of 196th and 104th Ave.



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Triboro Bridge to the Grand Central Parkway. Stay to your left on the GCP and exit at Francis Lewis Blvd. South. Make left at the stop sign and go to FL Blvd. and turn right. Come all the way down Francis Lewis Blvd. to 104th Ave. and turn right. Come down to 196th street and see church on corner.



The Hollis Presbyterian Church

100-50 196th Street

Hollis, New York 11423

Tel: 718-776-4646

Email: hollispresbyt@msn.com





Friday February 26, 2010

3:30-5:00 pm



Connecticut College

Student Center Connecticut College

New London, CT 06320-4196

http://www.conncoll.edu/



Lecture, Book Sale, and Book Signing, Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie


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