Ghana Food

Nothing is better than taking a long shower and have someone cook you a hot meal.

After a fruitless search today, I was aching coming home to the hostel. The moment Ientered the stairwell, I found it filled with this amazing smell, like homecooking. I discovered that visitors from Africa were cooking! I told them it smelled so good. For some reason, it remind me of mom who just recently visited this weekend before heading back to Houston, Tx.

I took a long shower after all the walking and sweating today. When I walked in, they were all still gathered around, and they invited me to eat with them. Someone served me a plate of some really hot rice and chicken, and it was the healthest, spicest, most delicious meal all day.

Oh god, was it spicy. But it was delicious and from Ghana, and it tasted like love, man.

Voodoo, whether you think of it as a religion or not, has some science to it. The energy you put into something, creates it. When you cook something and you put love into it, it tastes lke the love and energy it was made with and can sometimes make you stronger and live longer. It also tastes better.

Anyway, so it tasted like the best meal i'd had since saturday morning with mom. I asked a man of the group why and where they were from. They were from ghana and came to Memphis because they were muscians and were touring. I was hoping they'd stay til thursday, to play at open mic night at Java Cabana. I would try to see them then.

Afterwords, I tried to clean my plate, but they wouldn't let me! He said because the women cooked, the men would clean. I protested, because I certainly didn't cook, but they wouldn't hear it. So I thanked both the men and the women of the group of Africans from Ghana and went to here to work on homework and stuff.

One of the best things about Pilgrim House Hostel is that people from all over the world are generally nice, and they want to feed you whether you're hungry or not. I especially loved that about this place, and missed it when i left, because it has introduced me to so much good food and good people.