Note: this is a draft. Please let me know if you have comments, suggestions, or pictures.
Group: For boys once they start drinking milk.
A simple conical shape with a leather, or now sometimes plastic, lid, with a half-liter capacity, used for boys once they start drinking milk up to the point they drink so much they need a larger milk container. Then, they shift to the naitu.
Note: There are three forms of the mala. The mala enkoriong becomes a mala kini e nkerai, a calabash for girl children. A smaller version of the nkoting, but with a simpler shape, a simple, flat-bottomed cylinder with a skin or now plastic lid. The capacity is about half a liter.
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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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