Food here in Mali (by Matthew)

Food in Mali (by Matthew)

This past week we have had the pleasure of eating twice at one of Sévaré’s finest establishments, Mac’s Refuge. Mac is an American who is also a Malian citizen. He has lived most of his life in Mali both as a missionary kid and a missionary himself. Now he is “retired” and runs a little hotel and restaurant here in Sévaré. We have had 3 meals there the past week, all of them wonderful.

Every evening, Mac serves dinner and each evening has a theme. I don’t know all the themes yet, but I know that Friday is Asian cuisine and Saturday is Mexican Fiesta. We went to Asian night on Friday and had the best Thai soup I have ever had followed by fried rice and other Chinese dishes. The meal was wonderful and it was great getting to chat with colleagues and Mac himself who is present at every meal. On Sunday we went back for breakfast, because Mac serves an American breakfast every day between 7 and 8. That means pancakes, homemade syrup, french toast, banana bread, coffee, hot chocolate and more. The best thing about eating at Mac’s for us has been that he understood exactly what we meant when we said that Maria couldn’t eat wheat products and he made all the Asian food gluten free and even made corn-meal pancakes for her on Sunday! We will definitely be going back, maybe this week we will try Mexican Fiesta =)

Here is a picture of the boys in Fulani hats at Mac’s

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