Yummy Magazine Vol 3 - The Holiday Issue | Page 32

A VERY MBUZI CHRISTMAS The folks here at Yummy will use any excuse to get around a table together for a hearty meal 32. “After all the work I’ve put into this nyama (meat) I should at least get a whole leg to myself!” exclaims Carrey Francis Ronjey, staff writer at UP Magazine, as he extracts large pieces of meat from a blistering hot Cookswell oven. The occasion is the Yummy Christmas party and the location is the magazine’s managing editor’s house. Despite a tense moment when the butternut squash was charred in the Cookswell - an innovative Kenyan charcoal oven which is fast becoming popular in the backyards of our country’s foodies, the table is set and dinner will soon be ready The purpose of the dinner is twofold: first to celebrate the end of the working year with a bang. Second, to better understand the journey that an important element of the Kenyan Christmas dinner must undertake, before in reaches the hot coals of our barbecues. From the thorn-bush covered lands of Garissa in the North,