Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you all for your encouraging comments. Yes, a chance like this is rare. It would be so interesting to interview these men ...... from one of them, called "The Commander", I gathered he was very much involved in the fight against the Russians, but the language barrier prevented me from getting any details, one can only guess at what others might have done in their lives. Perhaps a future project, with a tape recorder. As to the question, asked of many, about women ....... no, I saw no women, they are very strict about the separation ........ as Tina says, the women of the house were probably working on cooking and cleaning, they were on a separate floor, behind closed doors. I must say the food was very good, what I liked best was liver, braised in chunks with onion. You take the bread and pick up the chunk, along with gravy, which invariably runs down your fingers, and pop it in your mouth. Quite delicious. The yoghurt is fresh, not pasteurized, just wonderful. Staple is rice cooked with meats, raisins, and carrot slices, the fat from the meat melding with the rice during cooking, again delicious. There was no alcohol. We are now back to normal, in Kabul, but I hear there is a BBQ being organized, so more to follow. Best Hugh On 5-Jun-11, at 1:33 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > Wonderful photos that depict the culture of the men of Afghanistan, > much > like I remember Iran, Jordan and Iraq. I assume the women are in the > kitchen cooking and cleaning. "Pakistan, Afghanistan & South Asia" hewthompson at mac.com