haitian mud cookies
Feb 3, 2008
With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt, salt and vegetable shortening. For some, these have now become regular meals.
How do we sit here and glut ourselves to death – have the nerve to moan about the size of our waist and the food that put it there – in the face of our starving brothers? How does our collective conscience – never mind consciousness – survive?
