Jane Levi

February 9, 2014July 30, 2019 Jane Levi presentation, Research, slides

Presentation and Samburu milk tasting at the Weston A. Price UK Conference

Jane Levi presented an illustrated talk, ‘The Smoke Cured Fermented Milk of the Samburu‘, and hosted a tasting of her reconstruction of the smoke-cured fermented milk of the Samburu for participants at the Weston A. Price conference on Saturday February 8th.

July 12, 2010July 30, 2019 Jane Levi presentation, Research

Keata Kule Lorein: paper presented at Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2010

William Rubel and Jane Levi presented the paper they wrote with local colleague Elly Loldepe at the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery over the weekend of 10th – 11th July. ‘Keata Kule Lorien: Finding the Ideal Balance Within the Smoke-Cured Fresh and Fermented Milk of Northern Kenya’s Samburu‘ was discussed by Symposiasts, and the full text of the paper published in Smoked, Cured and Fermented: the Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2010 (Totnes: Prospect Books, 2011).

Samburu County is a region in the north of Kenya, largely populated by the Samburu tribe, a group of nomadic pastoralists closely related to the Maasai living a traditional life on common land. The Samburu speak northern Maa, though everyone speaks Swahili and everyone who has been to school also speaks English. The area is changing very rapidly with traditional culture practices declining rapidly.

Samburu Research is an American organisation with Kenyan partners, formed by William Rubel in collaboration with local Samburu friends and colleagues. Together we work with local communities to research and document Samburu culture for the benefit of current and future generations, and to communicate those research outputs to the local community as well as to the outside world.