After having cooked Congolese food, I am confident about Burundi cuisine. Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world with 80% of the population living in poverty. This is partly due to the fact that it is land locked on all sides. From my research, a typical Burundian meal consists of sweet potatoes, corn, and peas. Meat is so expensive that most Burundian's have it a couple times a month. So, I'm guessing I will be cooking very few meat dishes for this next challenge. One of the main things they also eat is Ugali, which is cassava flour in water---another name for FuFu. Oh no! I'm not too excited about this. Red kidney beans seem to also be a very popular dish cooked in different ways.
As I'm reading more about the poverty rate and HIV/AIDS rates in the country, I can't help to feel so blessed to be where I am. In an hour, my mom is making me fried shrimp and steak, as we will be gorging on large amounts of meat dishes. Then I'm thinking, most of the Burundi population is having that in their lifetime. If that. It makes me think what makes me so special compared to them? I'm not. But I'm wondering if they even know if they are living in a worse situation than most people in the world or do they think it is just normal. Hmmm....it depresses me to read about all this. I'm going to sign off to ponder..... See you all soon in Burundi!
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