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Clay
Oven Indian Restaurant
Fajara
The Dum Phukt method of cooking uses dough to seal the container
with the ingredients which is then placed into a Tandoor oven
enabling all flavours being released from the herbs
and spices to be kept. |
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Food
Explanations Chicken
Yassa
Also common in Senegal it is grilled and cooked chicken (marinated)
made with onions, herbs and spices
served on a bed of rice or couscous. |
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Traditional Medicine
The use of traditional remedies is not restricted to particular
doctors or healers. Most older Gambians, particularly the
leaders elders of a community, know how to use certain plants
or herbs to facilitate good health.... |
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Kankurang
Mask
Traditionally the Kankurang is an important binding influence
on traditional Mandinka
society as he served to disseminate to the circumcised the
rules of social behaviour, the importance of brotherhood,
hunting practices and the medical uses of plants
and herbs.... |
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