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Default Cuisine of Tanzania?

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 05:19:39 -0800 (PST), bruce bowser
> wrote:

>On Sunday, December 27, 2020 at 10:08:23 AM UTC-5, Janet wrote:
>> In article >, says...
>> > "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>> > ...
>> > > On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 21:36:52 -0800, Julie Bove wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> OMG. He is not a gardener and yes, he's black.
>> > >
>> > > That's really all you came here to tell us. It took your four
>> > > paragraphs, though.
>> >
>> > No. I asked about the cuisine.

>> But you didn't ask him, the real-life face-to-face source of all the
>> answers and information you require abouy his preferred food. Why is
>> that?
>>
>> There is no (single) Tanzanian cuisine.
>>
>> FYI the continent of Africa is far more ethnically diverse than USA
>> (and correspondingly more diverse in cultures, languages, religions,
>> cuisines).
>>
>> Every country within Africa has its own long history of migration,
>> wars, invasion, foreign colonialisation, and occupation. Including
>> Tanzania, which has at least a thousand years of sea trade with the
>> Middle East, Far East: India and Arabia, Pakistan, Iran etc.

>
>If you don't mind continuing:
>
>Colonists from central Europe and the UK were rivals in Tanzania during the WWI, so some of the food traits will have their origins from there.


Can you be more specific about "colonists from central Europe"? Just
curious.