{"id":712,"date":"2014-07-10T20:06:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T02:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/?p=712"},"modified":"2014-07-08T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T04:28:27","slug":"day-4-of-21-first-mumu-not-a-nightgown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/2014\/07\/10\/day-4-of-21-first-mumu-not-a-nightgown\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 of 21: First mumu (not a nightgown!)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Me watching...didn't want to mess anything up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wow, we have gotten to do so much here in just these few days.\u00a0 Today, I got to be a part of working a mumu. \u00a0In this case, a mumu is not an old lady’s nightgown! \u00a0It is a big feast where you cook the food under the ground.\u00a0 Yesterday, BJ helped Enoch, a man in this tribe, find rope in the jungle to use to tie sticks together to build his house.\u00a0 Enoch\u2019s whole family is helping him to build this house.\u00a0 It is custom to \u201cAmamas\u201d, or thank, all of the people who help you; so Enoch provides the food, and the women prepare it. \u00a0Since BJ helped him find rope, and I helped the women prepare the mumu, we get to be a part of eating it!<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s how they work a mumu: First, the women clear a place to work the mumu.\u00a0 Next, they dig a hole and begin to build a large fire with hot stones.\u00a0 When I got there, I helped them peel sweet potatoes\u2026lots and lots of sweet potatoes!\u00a0 When we were done peeling, it was time to remove the stones work the mumu.\u00a0 They started layering everything: first were banana leaves, then sweet potatoes, then more leaves, then some greens, then more leaves, then more sweet potatoes.\u00a0 They put one last layer of leaves, and then they covered the whole, huge pile with dirt so that no smoke escaped!\u00a0 They let it sit for a couple hours to cook.\u00a0 When it\u2019s done cooking, they take all the dirt and leaves off and distribute the food to everyone!\u00a0 They don\u2019t eat this way all the time.\u00a0 One woman told me that they work a mumu after they build a house to thank people, or after they clear a new garden to thank people, or to feed people when someone dies.\u00a0 So I was very thankful to get to be a part of this special occasion!<\/p>\n

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Coving up the mumu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is Enoch, BJ's good friend. He is making a sauce...sort of like...ketchup!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The finished product...mmm! (sort of!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oh, Just a baby holding a huge knife...very common!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, we have gotten to do so much here in just these few days.\u00a0 Today, I got to be a part of working a mumu. \u00a0In this case, a mumu is not an old lady’s nightgown! \u00a0It is a big feast where you cook the food under the ground.\u00a0 Yesterday, BJ helped Enoch, a man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}