Week #2: Republic of the Sudan

Full disclosure: I actually selected this week's country last Wednesday. I was showing my co-worker the SpinGlobe iPhone app and this is where my first tap landed. Given the recent strife in the Darfur region of Sudan and in many neighboring African nations, I welcome to chance to highlight an aspect of the country which everyone can enjoy.

Searching for Sudanese recipes only added to my enthusiasm. So many interesting dishes to try! I found a recipe for fuul in a World Community Cookbook I own called "Extending the Table: Recipes and Stories from Argentina to Zambia in the spirit of More-with-Less" that I bought a couple years back at our local Ten Thousand Villages shop. Fuul, the national dish of Sudan, is essentially a savory bean dip that's eaten as a main course and scooped from bowls with fingers or tamia (chickpea cakes) - I'll definitely be making both.

So, without having to shell out the price of airfare, I'm going to jet about 6,000 miles due west from Barbados to Sudan. I do hope you'll join me.