nostalgic food

Food for Thought: My mother’s porridge heals

By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer Whether rice, oat, or flour based, porridge is the dish that carries the comfort of childhood in many cultures. It’s a basic food in my culture that most Malawians grow up eating. Now that I’m in my mid-twenties, a lot of my food cravings are childhood meals, especially my mother’s porridge recipe. The tenderness and care that I associated with porridge since a young age makes eating it now remind me of my mother’s love.  My mother mostly made flour porridge. Sometimes she would add groundnut powder into the mix with dry milk. Other times she…

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