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Adjective. Nice smelling. Especially applies to a freshly cleaned calabash prepared with lneriyoi or lorien. Also applies to any sweet-smelling wood, such as sandalwood. Locally, nataraquoi (need botanical name) leaves—from a small tree or shrub that looks like ginger (check this fact) that grows in the mountains, like the Mathews Range—are added to tea, and this makes the tea smell nice. Applies also to the various scents and perfumes used by the murran; and that girls add to their beads. The opposite of kong’u.
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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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