Eating Chadian Food with William and John Hardy

One of the staple foods here in Chad is "Esh".  It is pounded grain cooked into the form of a dough-type substance.  Usually it is made with millet, but sometimes with corn or wheat.  The millet flour is cooked with water over a hot fire to make a paste, and then poured into a wooden bowl as it begins to solidify.  It is then turned over onto a tray.  To eat it, you grab two-fingers full and dip it in a meat sauce.  There are all sorts of sauces or "mulahs".  Some with a onion base, others with okra as the main ingredient.  The one below is the okra kind - which, if you know okra, is really slimy!  But it tastes so good!  When Chadians eat together, the men eat in one place, and the women sit in another.  The boys and I (James) enjoyed a plate of it all to ourselves.