CHAPTER 10

Recipes

THE CHALLENGE FOR cooks and parents is translating the culinary habits of traditional peoples—for some of whom the greatest delight is consuming bloody quivering raw liver or crunching into raw kidney freshly plucked from a slaughtered goat—into foods that Westerners (especially Western children) can enjoy. The following recipes are designed to pique your curiosity and challenge your cooking habits—and demonstrate the fact that truly traditional foods can be both nutritious and delicious.