Possibly the most intriguing aspect about Malawi to someone who has never been is what you eat when you are there. Just about any food is available in the major cities or at the resorts for a price, but in the village areas there is a very limited diet for most of the people.
The staple food in Malawi is called nsima (n’see-mah), which is a thick porridge made from their staple food crop, maize. Corn is removed from the cobs, ground twice into a very fine powder, then mixed with water and boiled until extremely dense. The nsima is often molded into patties and always eaten with the hands. It is used to “scoop” up any other food that may also be available as part of the meal.Other foods sometimes available to village Malawians are rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, cabbage, tomatoes, onion, bananas, eggs and occasionally meat—mainly chicken and goat. However many of the impoverished Malawians survive on one meal of nsima a day.
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