The weekend eating of charcoal grilled nyama choma, loud rumba music in the background, bottles of beer on the table, is one of defining images of Kenya middle class.
Even gender roles reflect our society. The person serving drinks is typically female, carrying her bottles around in a basket; while the meat is served by men with low BMI, who come to the table and cut the grilled piece of meat. Unlike food cooked at home, typically by women, grilling meat is taken to be a man's job and not without reason. Meat cooked over an open flame takes us back to the original man, who went to the supermarket with a spear.
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