The Land of the Magical Fruit - Burkina Faso
This Sunday brings us to Burkina Faso, and I must say that I'm quite ecstatic to be writing a post about it on the same day that we actually ate the pancakes. Woohoo! I guess that's what happens when you have the following week off of work and none of your errands seem all that pressing. For those of you familiar with the old saying about beans, you might have already guessed from the title of this post that this week's pancakes involves beans, black eyed peas to be more specific. Our visit to Burkina Faso takes us back to the African continent this week. It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the region that Burkina Fasoans eat a bean type of pancake just as those residing in Benin. Burkina Faso and Benin border each other for a small portion of each's border. Of course I had no clue about this until I started my research for this week's pancake, that's half of the fun of this project, discovering new and interesting facts about the wo...