Note: this is a draft. Please let me know if you have any comments, suggestions, or pictures.
Plastic milking container, used as the milking container when producing milk to sell in villages and markets where non-Samburu will be buying, or simply as a container for carrying milk to the market, or on other journeys. As of this writing, Summer 2018, lepirra are not classed as a mala, lmala, or referenced by lmasin, the general term for wooden or gourd milking containers.
[Query. When used simply to carry milk, without the intention to sell it, is the milk poured or milked directly into the plastic container, or can it contain milk from a lmama?]
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I am an author who writes about traditional food and foodways. My book, The Magic of Fire (2002) is about hearth cooking. I have written an introductory history of bread, Bread, a global history (2011) and am currently writing a history of bread for the University of California Press. Other areas of interest include wild mushrooms, and specifically the treatment of Amanita muscaria in the historic record. I also write about Early Modern British Gardens, and for a more general audience, I write for Mother Earth News on bread, gardening, and more. I have an ongoing research project into the smoke-cured fermented milk of the Kenyan Samburu tribe. I am a co-director of the Samburu Lowlands Research Station, Lengusaka. I am the founding editor (1972) of Stone Soup, the magazine of writing and art by young people.
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