Meanwhile in Africa ...

Over here, we're eating hot dogs and counting the weeks between the last box of our winter CSA and the end of the Somerville Winter Farmers' Market and the beginnings of their summer equivalents, but on the other side of the world, my friends Nathaniel and Ariel are bringing in their soybean harvest.

For more episodes of local food, Malawi edition, may I recommend their reflections on the challenges of cooking in a foreign country, their ersatz yogurt maker, and particularly their quixotic quest for molasses?