In the latest postdoc journal, Aliza le Roux is mouthwatering for T-bone steaks during field work in the Simien Mountains in Ethiopia. Personally, it’s fresh vegetables that I missed the most during my years in Tigray (believe it or not, Ethiopia is quite a meat country) but I can understand the craving for some decent food.
However, the “fat little birds called francolins that run in front of the truck” should not be seen as alternative meat supply, since most of them are threatened and red-listed. Erckel’s and Clapperton’s are LC, Harwood’s is VU. The reason: excessive hunting. The EWNHS has posters to discourage francolin hunting.
If you are a meat fan, try qurti or kitfo. The Ethiopian cuisine is not bad after all.
Harwood’s francolin (VU): not a Big Mac.
Personally, it’s fresh vegetables that I missed the most during my years in Tigray
That rang a bell with me, Raf. During the two and a half weeks in the summer of ’98 I spent looking for fossils by Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, we craved fresh fruit and veg. The stews of freshly slaughtered goat were delicious; the fresh-caught tilapia were wonderful. But always served with rice (which was nice) or maize-meal cake (which made you fart the whole night through). When anyone rolled into camp with a lettuce or an avocado, someone would whisk it away and come back with a salad on which the rest of us would descend like vultures.
That little bird does not look to me as if it has enough meat on it to satisfy a sparrow, let alone an African
explorerpaleontologist.Don’t be deceived, Maxine. Raf has cleverly left out the scale bar. Francolins are about 38 feet tall.
…is that the side of Mount Killimanjaro then henry?
Good Lord!
It looks like the Empire State Building to me. The biplanes are just out of shot.