Talking food with Lamine Sonko.
- Gabrielle Vernon-Melzer
- May 15, 2017
- 2 min read
What are the foods of your childhood?
Millet, rice, fish and vegetables.
What are your all time favourite foods today?
Supercanja (okra soup) and chebu jin, Senegal’s national dish of fish and rice.
What do you think are the best fruits and vegetables?
Mango and beetroot.
What are your favourite desserts?
Pancakes!
What do you eat for breakfast on a typical day? What is your ideal breakfast?
Coffee, poached eggs with hollandaise sauce.
What is your favourite holiday or festival? How do you celebrate it, and what do you
eat?
Eid -end of Ramadan- [is] celebrated by eating lots of food with the family, roast chicken
lots of salads and lahk (millet porridge with yogurt.)
Where did you grow up? What are some typical foods to be found there?
Dakar, Senegal; fish and rice everyday. Fresh from the ocean! Baobab fruit.
Where else have you lived? Where do you live now? What was/is the food like? Do
you like it?
Melbourne, Australia – the food here is very diverse and you have the choice of
different cultural foods from Mexican to Asian, African anything. Yes, I like the most of
it.
It’s 2 am, you’re just getting home. What are you eating?
Fruit salad and yoghurt.
Imagine your fridge. What is inside?
Chocolate, eggs, yoghurt, berries, vegetables, milk.
Do you like to cook? What do you typically make?
Yes, I like to make lamb soup and dishes with rice.
What do you think are the best summer foods?
Fruits and lamb barbecue.
What do you crave when the weather is cold?
Ultimate sandwich?
Avocado and chicken focaccia.
What is the best pizza topping?
Seafood mix.
What is the most interesting thing you’ve tried while traveling?
Kangaroo meat in Alice Springs, [Australia].
What is the best thing you can remember eating?
Lahk; millet porridge with yogurt and banana and condensed milk sometimes.
What do you put on toast?
Eggs.
If you were throwing a party, what would you serve?
Marinated lamb barbecue with marinated onions, fresh bread and salads.
Can you share a memory with us- any memory- that somehow involves food?
My first time trying to cook chebu jin in Australia, I had to call my mum for the recipe
but the phone connection died and the recipe didn’t work out.
To learn more about Lamine, and hear his beautiful music, check out this video:
Want to cook some of Lamine's favourite foods at home? Check out our recipes for spicy lamb stew and lahk porridge!
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