My attempt to cook a hamburger...

I’d love to cook American food for my Cameroonian friends, but at times, I feel totally incompetent in the kitchen. In the three+ years that I lived in Manhattan, I used my oven only 4 times...

When Cameroonians think of American food, they think of the hamburger, though few people have ever eaten a hamburger here. No one here has ever heard of the small restaurant chain called McDonalds.

So with my friend, Amy’s encouraging words, I ventured out to the meat market by myself, and attempted to make hamburgers from scratch. This was just a trial-run. After I master the art of cooking greasy American food, I’ll invite my Cameroonian friends over for dinner ;)

Pictures:

1 – 3: The meat marche

4 – 7: The marche… The dirt streets are filled with vendors selling the same things. Each vender sells their products by the pile -- small piles are 100 CFA (or 20 cents). That’s 4 or 5 tomatoes for 20 cents…

8 – 11: preparing food… It takes a long time to prepare food – soaking veggies in bleach water, marinating meat, cooking everything well-done, etc.

12: Voila!