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After a discussion with Ricardo (riclopes) about the makeshift water containers in my previous post, I remembered this photo where there is what I call direct recycling. In poor countries like Cape Verde, with few resources, people have to make do with whatever they get available. In this photo, in Baía das Gatas, a Belgian milk powder can is being used to boil water and make steam for the terracotta cuscus container (the binde) above it. The couscous dough itself is used to seal between the can the binde. (See detail in workshop.)
The Cape-Verdean cuscus is different from the North African couscous. It’s more like a cake, that is eaten in slices with spread butter, often with tea. The North African type, also eaten in Cape Verde, is called in Cape-Verdean Creole as cuscus marrocano (“Moroccan couscous“).
The other food you see here it’s also a kind of sweet cake, made of banana dough.

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