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Fill ‘er up (with mealie pap) (Extra Virgin)
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 | uncategorized | No Comments
To cut your car’s carbon emissions, you could cycle instead of drive. Or trade your 3-litre monster in for something with a mosquito-sized engine; or, wait for it, you could put pap in your petrol tank. Leonie Joubert considers the brave new world of “green” fuel.
It’s the South African staple with many faces: sadza, umphokoqo, iphuthu, krummelpap, boiled mealie or braaied sweetcorn. Sometimes, it even arrives in a glass of umqombothi, with a kick as gentle as an unshod ass. That’s right, it’s maize, a local favourite. But this story starts in Mexico City, at the Great Tortilla Uprising of 2007. › Continue reading
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