Eby'okurya= food

Some people might ask. . . . what do you eat??? Well the most common staple food is matooke (or eby’tooke) which is green bananas peeled and cooked in wrapped banana leaves. There is also a lot of rice, cornmeal, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava, and pasta. In short, there is a lot of starch. Actually, anything not starch (and for some, anything not matooke) is not actually food. There is no actual word for the group of foods called vegetables in my target language (although there are words for individual types of vegetables). Instead vegetables and proteins are all just “sauce” to make the actual food go down easily. The numerous and abundant fruits ( the best pineapple, the ripe bananas, the mangos in their season, the jack fruits, the papayas) are all seen as a type of candy. For this reason malnutrition more than under nourishment is an issue.