T H E M O N T E R E Y C O U N T Y H E R A L D , W E D N E S D A Y , J U N E 2 , 2 0 1 0 Monterey County Inside Yogurt crosses cultures with new styles, imports, C Taste page C3 www.montereyherald.com , Tomatoes and smoked fish are common A bowl of components of with a sauce of Malian cooking “ water” salt, offered at market served al fresco places. at a roadside food stall. fire MARIE PERUCCA-RAMIREZ/Special to The Herald Grilling the Argentine way involves TIMBUKTU the primal FROM HERE TO basics

B y B I L L D A L E Y is a land of striking geographic Chicago Tribune lassical Greek contrasts, where tribal peoples literature is not the subsist along the fertile first source most C North Americans would turn to in imbuktu. The name with squash vines and making an analogy about conjures a fabled fields heavy with grain, and grilling, but then how many city at the far ends goats and chickens of them have ever seen T of the earth — a wandering among cylindrical Argentine grilling in action? fantastical place that granaries with conical Steven Raichlen has. exists for many only in the thatched roofs; a village “Argentine grilling is the realm of imagination. But moving to the rhythms of most heroic grilling in the Timbuktu, on a distant edge agricultural cycles, anchored Homerian sense,” said the of the Sahara, was once a solidly by a small mud-brick Miami-based grill expert and major city in the great Mali mosque and a chief with two author. Homer, of course, Empire. wives. People were curious was a legendary poet, author At a time when Europe about us, as we were about of ancient Greece’s most was just emerging from the them; they were used to sweeping war epic, “The Middles Ages, Timbuktu was Michael, but still surprised Iliad.” a thriving center of learning occasionally by Yiriba (Tall “It’s very primal. No and commerce dominating a Tree) — the 6-foot, 4-inch adornment. Nothing fancy. major trade route that blond, Bambara-speaking No elaborate marinades,” connected the American. Raichlen added. “It’s about Mediterranean and western In the cooler hours of meat, salt and fire.” Africa. With morning, the And what fire! Take a our godson sound of gander at the back jacket of Michael, a early-rising “Seven Fires: Grilling the Peace Corps Food women Argentine Way” by superstar volunteer, pounding Argentine chef Francis working in a Wranglers millet in Mallmann and Peter village in large Kaminsky, a cookbook Mali, we Back Roads, Good Food wooden author and food writer from decided to mortars Brooklyn, N.Y. There visit this reverberates Mallmann stands in open vibrant throughout field, stacks of plates and country the village: logs beside him, tending where tribal boom, boom, what he calls an “infiernillo,” peoples BOOM! or “little hell,” a blazing subsist in a Boom, boom double-tiered fire topped by a land of BOOM! The sloping griddle. striking women “What Francis strives for is geographic proceed to carbonization, but not contrasts, winnowing baskets of grain; incineration,” said Kaminsky. sustained by the Niger River. carrying water from the We’d odyssey through this “A French chef would grill a well-buckets on their heads, steak rare and blue in the land experiencing its unique babies on their backs; flavors and sounds, its center. The Argentines want preparing noon meals for a salty crust and otherwise present and its past — all the their families; then gathering way to Timbuktu. wall-to-wall color. The bigger again to recommence the the piece of meat, the lower Bamako, Mali’s bustling pounding of millet with their capital, lies in the fertile delta the heat to achieve that crust 4-foot pestles, exchanging MARIE PERUCCA-RAMIREZ/Special to The Herald and to get uniform color.” lands along the Niger, hot, woman-talk as they work. humid and green; a city of Other distinctive During the heat of the day, Argentine grilling practices, more than a million people, men break from their work in its streets crowded with according to Kaminsky, the fields to have the noon Above: A Fulani include moving the meat bicycles, mopeds, taxi-vans, meal, relaxing, with desultory and buses transporting woman in closer or farther away from conversation, under the Mopti, Mali, the flame along that sloping people and goods, fish and shade of karite trees. “Butter” grain. At streetside bazaars, with a gourd griddle, depending on the extracted from the karite cloth merchants display their heat required, and the use of nuts is used by villagers for container. wares, artisans offer black iron skillets and daily cooking as well as for Left: Djenné’s famous griddles over the coals for traditional much of the cooking. remedies. (Karite, Grande Sometimes there’s no grill at or shea butter, has Mosque, the all; that sort of setup is called become a source of largest an asado. income for villagers mud-brick “Basically (it’s) a campfire as major cosmetic building in the with large hunks of meat or companies have world. whole animals impaled on discovered its stakes in front of it,” writes beneficial use in Raichlen in his new skin care products). cookbook, “Planet With sundown, reserve eating meat for ; pork in various Barbecue!” (Workman, villagers gather for popular beverages — most $22.95). “The heat is special feasts. forms (a meat forbidden to the evening meal. Malians are Moslems and controlled by positioning the At night, after leisurely Muslims) is common on Without electricity, don’t drink alcohol, though stakes closer to or farther it’s dark — very conversation, everyone some tribal people, like the menus, as is beer. retires early. The heat is away from the fire.” dark. We sat on low Dogon, brew their own beer We approached the old pervasive, mosquito nets are city of Djenné on the flood Mallmann charmingly wooden stools in a from millet. likens getting that technique suffocating — but malaria is plains of the Niger as the circle as the food Restaurants in larger right to going on a first date. endemic. For us the choice mists were rising in the late was passed and towns offer wider, and often “It is something that you was between sweltering more urbane, menu afternoon: It appeared like eaten with the under a net, or sleeping look forward to with great fingers; first a bowl selections such as escalope Camelot on a lake as the exposed, while the termites setting sun turned the sky anticipation and a little of rice then a bowl de veau (veal scaloppine) and anxiety,” he writes. “You can MARIE PERUCCA-RAMIREZ/Special to The Herald devouring the ceiling above flaming crimson. Accessible of sauce — brochettes with never know exactly what the In the outskirts of Timbuktu, a Tuareg rained debris down on those by causeways during the with a small dried conditions will be: the day man, mounted on a camel, wears the sleeping below. rainy season, the city, with its fish in our honor; can be windy or cold, the traditional, indigo-blue robes of his Traveling through the narrow, winding, magical everyone took a bit wood may be seasoned or nomadic, Berber-speaking tribe. countryside, we joined truck streets, is crowned by the of rice, and using drivers, cyclists and bus green. In a way, every time Grande Mosque — the the finger scoop of passengers at roadside food you cook over wood largest mud-brick building in woodcrafts and jewelry, and rice as a “spoon,” took some stalls, sitting under shady outdoors, you are starting hawkers tout cassettes and of the sauce and continued overhangs eating rice with an the world — its smooth, fresh in a strange kitchen. CDs featuring popular passing the bowls. Another onion sauce from bright blue curved, adobe surfaces Once you have done it pan-African musicians. night the meal was a gruel of and red plastic bowls, and glowing in the dusk. enough, however, you will Businessmen in loose, pounded millet flour, tô, with akara — patties of black-eyed Djenné’s colorful, crowded always be able to adapt.” flowing kaftans and women a sauce of baobab leaves (the peas, and chiles fried Monday Market is held in Raichlen sides with in multicolored head wraps leaves lending an okra-like in karite oil — served with a the open square in front of Mallmann on the superior and sarong-style skirts pass texture to the tô). Traditional sauce. Common sauces the Mosque with vendors merits of a wood fire for food stands offering woks of village food is usually a gruel include those made with offering everything from live Argentine cooking. A gas fried fish, bananas and of grain — millet, corn, rice ground (tiga diga na animals, fresh produce and grill could get something potatoes, and restaurants and sorghum are staples — — probably the most popular dried -, “approaching” the Argentine featuring local foods and with a leaf or a vegetable sauce in Mali), baobab saffron and cayenne, to taste, he said, if the appliance cuisines from the homelands sauce. Meat is rarely eaten in leaves, leaves, traditional medicines and is “screaming hot,” outfitted of ex-pats. the countryside: as in most and okra. elixirs, housewares, tools, with heavy-duty grates and Michael’s village lay a Third World countries, Herbal teas made from Bending before a field of cloth, clothing, baskets and the meat is seasoned ways away — both in culture though sheep and goats are hibiscus leaves and lemon millet with her child on her crafts. and distance — from the city: raised, they can provide a grass, and fruit juices, such back, a woman washes rice a small village in Koulikoro, source of income, so villagers as guava and tamarind, are grains in well water. Please see Timbuktu page C4 Please see Argentine page C3

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had managed to survive the Lemongrass Tea Timbuktu scorching desert, hostile About the authors (Serves 4) attacks and virulent diseases Julio Ramirez and Marie Malians drink a lot of fruit juices From page C1 until Gordon Laing reached Perucca-Ramirez, creators of and teas. Drink this tea cold for a the city 1824. (And he was the Fishwife Seafood really refreshing and distinctive murdered two days after he As in the small, local Restaurants and Turtle Bay drink on a hot summer day. left.) We arrived in Timbuktu taquerias on the Peninsula, markets, vendors here — once a city of great sold their restaurants to start 1⁄2 lb. lemongrass stalks (see display small smoke-dried libraries and universities, a The Food Wranglers Inc., a note) fish, black from the process center of law, literature and restaurant consultant group. 1 qt. water (use filtered) (and a magnet for flies), science, a hub of trade visited Julio is certified as an Sugar to taste (or try agave melons, squash, onions, yearly by caravans of more executive chef by the nectar) yams, plantains and sugar than 12,000 camels American Culinary Federation Steps: Discard any dried outer cane. Especially interesting and in 1999 was inducted into leaves from the lemongrass stalk. transporting goods across the the prestigious American are the piles of tomatoes, Sahara from the Cut the stalk into 2-inch lengths. chiles, peanuts and cassava: Academy of Chefs. He is Use a meat tenderizer or mallet Mediterranean — to find a currently Executive Chef at these essential ingredients of and smash the sections. Place small, dusty town with a long Quail Golf and Country Club. segments into a large pitcher. Malian cooking are natives of memory. Marie is a writer with a degree the New World, and highlight Over centuries, the winds in history and sociology and a Bring the water to a boil and historical connections master’s in applied linguistics. pour the boiling water into the blew, sands built up, and the pitcher; let the lemongrass steep between Africa and the Niger’s course shifted; The couple have always Americas. Peanuts traveled enjoyed traveling the back for 5 -6 minutes. Stir in sugar or desertification destroyed the agave nectar to taste. Refrigerate from colonial Peru to Manila water supply and vegetation. roads of the world; they are on Spanish galleons; from interested in seeing what other until cooled. Today, Timbuktu is literally a ethnic groups grow, what they Remove from refrigerator. there they were brought to backwater town: with the Africa via Arab traders; then eat, how they prepare their Press lemongrass segments river now too far away for against the side of the container they crossed the Atlantic on food — what their various efficient transportation, it’s no cultures “taste like.” with a large spoon to extrude any slave ships to North America, longer the crossroads where During their travels they remaining flavor; remove and where they became a cash “the camel met the canoe.” have met many remarkable discard. crop. Cassava, today one of The nomadic Turaeg people, individuals, had a number of Add ice cubes to the pitcher, the main dietary staples of wrapped and turbaned in unusual experiences, eaten a and serve tea in glasses garnished MARIE PERUCCA-RAMIREZ/Special to The Herald Mali — and Africa — was flowing, indigo-blue and variety of unfamiliar foods — with a lime wheel. brought from Colonial Brazil The sprawling Monday Market at Djenné is held in the open and collected some great Note: Lemongrass is available in square in front of the famous mud-brick Grande Mosque black, once masters of the via Portuguese ships. caravan routes, now camp recipes they have adapted for some supermarkets and in Asian Joining a small group of (seen in background). home use. markets. Select fresh, pale-green with their camels and Occasionally they will share Australians for a trek in livestock in the sands outside lemongrass; yellow, dried-out Dogon country, we hiked animals such as sacred next-to-no school supplies, their experiences — through stalks will have little flavor. crocodiles protect their just the desire to learn. of the dusty town. Tuaregs, words and photos — with cliffside trails over the rugged historically herders not villages. Menstrual huts are At the end of the trek, a Herald readers. Write to them Tiga Diga Na Bandigara Escarpment, farmers, exchange their at [email protected]. still prescribed for women, village spit-roasted a sheep Yiriba’s Chicken Stewed sleeping in tents under the animals’ meat, milk, camel for us. As the moon rose, the in Peanut Sauce stars at night. Here the who are isolated during their and goat cheeses for grains moon cycles, and elaborate fire blazing, our hosts began (Serves 6 to 8) Dogon people build their that they grind for bread “Festival in the Desert” was cliffside villages — mud-brick funerary dancing is to dance exuberantly — first This is one of Mali’s most using wooden mortars and held outside of Timbuktu in popular dishes. Meat, such as cottages and granaries with performed for their dead, who the women and then the men. pestles. One young man gave me his 1996. A sort of G-rated chicken, stewed in a peanut butter conical grass roofs — next to are buried in cliff-face grottos. The plight of the nomadic musical Burning Man, the shirt. I thought he wanted me sauce and served over rice, makes deep gorges, accessible only Subsistence agriculturists, Tuareg was voiced by annual event has put a savory dinner entrée that evokes by foot. Theirs is an animist their children sit 70 in a to hold if for him, but it was Tinariwen, a group of former Timbuktu on the map again: the flavors of western Africa. And, culture where soothsayers classroom — sharing desks an invitation to dance — and rebels singing a new genre of caravans of camels, as Michael Tamburri (Yiriba) foretell events and totem five and six across — with dance I did, liberated, moving “desert blues;” their songs of musicians, Tuaregs and explains, “little is set in Malian to the rhythmic chanting and hardship, political repression, international festival-goers cuisine. Tiga diga na is what you clapping under the African and freedom sparked world cross the desert to make make of it.” So feel free to adjust night sky. interest in Malian music. In music together in one of the ingredients to include your favorite Let a Carmel Valley Expert And then there was celebration of the nomadic most remote areas of the vegetables. Serve it with a green Timbuktu. 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desired consistency (it should be more or less like a cream sauce). Timbuktu Stir in the chopped tomatoes and minced chiles and bring to a boil. From page C4 Adjust the seasoning, if necessary. Remove pot from the heat, salad and a cold fruit drink or beer. remove the chicken skins (they will be lose and often floating on the 3 T. peanut oil sauce), skim visible oil, stir, and 1 1 ⁄2 yellow onions, minced serve the chicken and peanut 8 garlic cloves, sliced over rice, which is traditional in 3 lbs. chicken thighs, bone in and Mali — or, also traditional in Mali, skin on (chicken is the most over ground millet or cornmeal common choice of meat in Mali, mush. For more information, contact followed by mutton or goat, but Notes: Use one vegetable or any Peggy Gross at 831-646-1212 Michael also uses pork loin or beef combination of vegetables; we cut into 11⁄2-inch cubes) have made it with just butternut to find out how our coverages 2 cups chicken stock (or 2 tsp. squash, with just yams, and with a can save you time and money. Better Than Bouillon organic combination of butternut squash Peggy Gross chicken base, available at Costco, and spinach. dissolved in 2 cups water; bouillon In Mali, the stem of the cubes are used in Africa) habanero is removed from the 885 Abrego Street, Monterey 4 T. paste chiles and they are added whole to CA License # 0B09248 3 cups diced butternut squash, the stew early on in the cooking diced yams, spinach, diced process, where they float on the eggplant, shredded cabbage (see surface as the stew cooks; when notes) serving, the juice from the chiles is 2 tsp. kosher salt squeezed over the individual 1⁄2 cup natural chunky peanut portions to add heat. butter If children will be eating this dish, 1 cup natural smooth peanut you can set aside their portions in butter a smaller pot, before adding the 3 cups hot water-plus 3 or 4 chile. Kids enjoy the peanutty taste. cups of water as needed 2 cups diced tomatoes 11⁄2 habanero chiles, minced (or more if you like it hot; see notes) Steps: Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat; sauté onion and garlic until translucent, about 3-4 minutes. Add the chicken thighs or selected meat and brown approximately 6 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and the stock and cook for about 1 minute until blended. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 8 minutes. Add the chosen vegetables (except for the tomatoes) to the pot and stew until tender, about 10 minutes. Add the salt and mix well. In a separate bowl, mix the peanut butter with 3 cups of hot water, stir/whisk until well blended. Paul’s Drapery Add the peanut butter to the pot 160 18th Street • Pacific Grove and mix well, incorporating the peanut butter with the stock; cover (831) 372-4421 the pot and cook over medium low www.paulsdrapery.com heat, stirring occasionally, for another 40 minutes or until the meat is tender and the oil rises to the surface. Skim excess oil. Add water as necessary to maintain