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Cooking Around the World: Namibia

We're into the Ns in our  Cooking Around the World Adventure , as we take advantage of longer summer evenings and lack of homework and a schedule. I held off cooking this for a few days because, frankly, 'grilled bush meat' wasn't high on my to-try list nor was 'neck of mutton' or 'ostrich carpaccio.' I figured that crocodile meat was off the list as possible anyhow. And I was feeling too lazy to head off in search of ostrich meat. I know that I can find it; I just hadn't had the time. Country:  Namibia . Fun Facts : Namibia is the second least densely populated country on earth - after Mongolia. There are just over two million people living in a country which is half the size of Alaska. The Namib desert, at 80 million years, is the world’s oldest desert. Namib means “open space”. Fish River Canyon, , formed about 500 million years ago, is the second largest canyon in the world, after the Grand Canyon – it is 100 miles long, up...