Communities in Kenya have adopted one another’s food preferences
and recipes. With the exception of the Coast and Indian
communities for whom food preparation is an elaborate process,
nearly all other communities garnish their food by frying it.
They also boil, bake in hot ashes and roast. Common foods
include: It is a sticky mixture of flour and water and is
accompanied by vegetables, meat, milk or milk mixed with blood
especially for pastoralist communities. Traditionally, it is
made from millet or cassava. But maize flour has increasingly
taken pride of place. lt is used to prepare sauces and stews.
Communities have different ways of preparing meat, but roast
meat is widely eaten as a delicacy especially in urban areas.
Animals slaughtered for meat depend on the location, with beef
and mutton the most common. Camel and game are the preserve of
communities with access to the animals. In the last quarter
ofthe 20th century, maize replaced sorghum as the most important
cereal in Kenya. lt is roasted and eaten