Noun
Pronunciation: [roll the ‘r’] rahn-gahn’-ya
Caramelized cheese made from cooking ngorno curds.
This sweet, brown cheese is made by cooking nkeisiich (buttermilk) to the point it begins to caramelize. Ranganya is related to the Norwegian whey cheeses of gjetost (made from goat milk) and mysost (made from cow milk). Like these Scandinavian cheeses, ranganya is sweet. It is usually fed to Samburu children.
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This is the draft manuscript of the Samburu Milk Project, © 2024 William Rubel.
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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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