So I am sitting here trying to decide what to right about Cameroon this week. I am rather hungry and I thought food! hey! That could be something interesting to write about. So I am sitting here currently trying to find some interesting facts about Cameroon food and maybe figure out what we might possibly be eating there...

To try to talk about food in a short blog is nearly impossible but hey! Let’s check out some facts recipes and hopefully my stomach will stop making noises in the mean time...

Cameroon has an enormous diversity, having European influence thus in the Cameroonian cuisine there is a massive combination of exotic and local spices, indigenous plants, meat and sea food. This makes for a very diverse and unique meals and experiences. In different areas of Cameroon the people have different staples.

The National dish in Cameroon is Ndole. It is a bitter soup like dish with nuts, goat, fish in it (depending were you are in the country). I think this is what we ate when we tried some Cameroon food down in Toronto when the team and I visited the All Nations Gospel Church as part of a field trip. With it we had what I think would be called maize.



This is what we ate in Toronto



This is what Ndole looks like



Maize being collected yum!



In western Cameroon the staple he fufu which is made of maize and eaten with almost everything. A dish known Kondre can almost be considered another national dish and fufu is ALWAYS served with in. Kondre is a dish made with tubers, bananas cooked with a combination of meat such as goat fish sheep pork beef chicken etc. I feel like we might have eaten this too when we were in Toronto.

 

Fortunatley my stomach has stopped making noises the sad part is that now I am really really really hungry. So I am going to statify my hunger cravings with some delicious cafe food. I CAN NOT wait to eat something else such as what I have mentioned above. I hope that I have gotten you taste buds tingling for some African food and aren't not hesitate to try some if you have the chance!