After making an enormous load of sweet treats for tomorrow’s Thing’s Fall Apart project (get excited!), I noticed this recipe for cassava balls. As mentioned in the book, cassava is a root which is a staple for most African cooking due to its heartiness and adaptability. As I researched more on the cassava treats I read that they apparently taste like spritz cookies. I found this to be an ironic connection between such a european cookie and an african staple.
–Steph
The “palm-oil” cupcakes were delicious! We shoould compile a Things Fall Apart Cookbook! I also looked up cassava and learned that it is a root which, when prepared improperly, can cause goiter or even partial paralysis (due to left-over cyanide traces). The more toxic varieties are apparently used as back-up resources in times of famine in developing counties. Therefore, like Stephanie said, it is horribly ironic that people, presumably from more affluent backgrounds and countries compare something so potentially lethal to something like a cookie.
Lizzy