She could not stop marveling over the miracle that had taken place. The golden wattle, a native Australian acacia, was in full springtime bloom, producing large fluffy yellow flower heads that were in fact clusters of many tinier flowers, casting green trees and brown bark in gold that shimm...
As everyone watched for the bone to crack and reveal a message from the ancestors, Timonides glanced over to where his son was preparing the night's dinner—a curious dish comprised of long fat threads made from rice flour, called noodles, boiled in a broth and mixed with vegetables and meat. Nest...
Two plump sweet potatoes wrapped in banana leaves were growing soft over steam; millet grains burst in boiling water and thickened into porridge. Although many of the women in the village across the river were adopting the European custom of eating three meals a day, Wachera still practiced the o...