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A Kind of the Dish Between Us

Demba Kah 4 min readPage 1 of 3
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A Kind of the Dish Between Us

The recipe had no measurements. My grandmother cooked by feel, by colour, by smell.

There were arguments, of course. What family does not argue. But the arguments were followed, always, by shared bread.

We climbed for six hours and said almost nothing. Silence at altitude has a different quality than silence at sea level.

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