Millets are so 80s - We're in Chad
We've now traveled back to Africa to the country of Chad. I'm seriously experiencing some jetlag here! I'm wondering if maybe we should have planned our trip a bit differently, like all of the countries on one continent and then moved to another continent. Oh well, we didn't, so here we are back and forth across the world again. While researching Chadian pancakes, we discovered that millet is the important grain in this country. At first we found lots of references to something called aiysh in Northern Chad and biya in Southern Chad. We soon learned that these are the same thing, balls of fried millet, in both regions. For some reason they just have different names. We were a bit disappointed to find out that these were balls, because we don't really consider fried balls of dough to be pancakes (with the exception of abelskivers of course, but we'll get to them when we get to Denmark). So we continued to look for Chadian pancak...