First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa has encouraged women to go for traditional food, including no-knead crusty bread locally known as chimodho in breakfast meals with commercial bread becoming a scarce and expensive commodity.
The wife of Zimbabwe’s President was addressing women at a Programme for Traditional Breakfast Fair Activities in Harare today.
Bread has become a precious commodity, which is rare and yet priced at nearly RTGS$5 to the citizens who are complaining about price increases.
“I want to call upon the nation to rally behind the call to produce small grains and promote consumption of traditional dishes,” Mnangagwa said.
“We want to see traditional foodstaffs such as madhumbe (taro root), mbambaira (sweet potatoes), manhanga (pumpkins), masarinya, mutakura and manhuchu being the main breakfast items in our culture.”
Zimbabwe’s First Lady also revealed of ovens specially produced to bake chimodho to the women who had attended the breakfast fair.
“Taakuno shanda kuti ma oven aya aende kuma provinces” (We are now going to ensure that these ovens are distrbuted around the provinces) Mnangagwa said.
“Tichitarisa kuti vana kana vakuenda kuchikoro, hakuchisina ma chips, hakuchisina ma things vanongoenda vakatakura izvi,” (Even children will have to substitute, chips and other snacks for such food)
“Chero pamba paugere wona kuti wagona kubika chimodho vana amai“ (Make sure that you are good at cooking chimodho whereever you areas women) the First Lady went on explaining.
The Breakfast fair was attended by the Minister of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises, Sithembiso Nyoni and the Minister of Information Monica Mutsvangwa.
Traditional food stuffs were exhibited during the TraditionaL Breakfast Fair.
