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Cooking Around the World: Comoros Islands

Summer vacation means one thing for my kitchen time. There's more of it. When I don't have to wrangle the boys out of the car and straight to their desks to finish homework and, then, juggle my cutting boards and their homework questions, life is good. So, it's summer. And we are getting back to our Cooking Around the World adventure and hoping to make some headway through the alphabet! Tonight we traveled, by tabletop, to the Comoros Islands, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. The country, gaining independence from France in 1975, consists of the four islands in the volcanic Comoros archipelago: Ngazidja, Mwali, Nzwani, and Mahoré, With fewer than a million people, the Comoros is one of the least populous countries in the world, but is also one of the most densely populated. We all did need a geography lesson for this one. We had no clue where these islands really were. Thank goodness for our atlas. Cultural influences on this country include A...