Comments on: Recipe: Haitian Mudcakes

By: Rob Wood

Rob Wood — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:57:51 +0000

@Mulatona, I cannot speak for Jethro, but any humour in this article is firmly aimed at the problems of western indifference. Certainly not at the plight of the Haitian people. We write about this stuff, because nobody else does and we invoke dark humour precisely because it makes people uncomfortable and gets them thinking about the topic.

By: Mulatona

Mulatona — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:10:36 +0000

I am shocked at the light-hearted comments about this, especially Jethro’s. As a Haitian woman, I find nothing comical about people fighting over food, raisins, etc when in fact, you will get beaten or killed for something as simple as a bowl of rice; we are just that poor down there and I have had numerous relatives assaulted, kidnapped, murdered for less. Have some sensitivity please. Think about your mother standing in line for a mud cake then someone beating her to death for it, then tell me if you still think your comment about the “sprise chili pepper” is still funny…asshole.

By: Tijuana Bia

Tijuana Bia — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:13:33 +0000

I wish more people were like Mr. George Clooney. What he has done to help the Haitian people is just amazing. So many of the Hollywood celebrities are just phonies looking for publicity. George is one of the true greats.

By: Jethro Mayham

Jethro Mayham — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:09:31 +0000

Let’s promote Haiti mud cookie recipe because it could actually benifit the natives down there. I went to a raisin processing plant and got a commitment for suuport. They wuold supply tons of reject raisens tha tthey would normaly sell to livestock feeding plants. My problem is to figure out how to get the raisins to Haiti. I think it is best to waituntil the mess gets sorted out down there.

Once I could several tons or reject raisens to a port, I guess I have to find a charity for shipping the stuff. Can you imagine how muchmore nutritious the mud cookies woulkdbe when there are actual embedded rasins in the mud. One each ofr the eyes and nose and five for the mouth outline. I hope it doesn’t cause fights when they each want a raisin.

I was thinking of hiding a reject peanut or any other nut that miight be free. while eating they will ask ask each other, “Who got the nut?” And there will be laughter when the winning eater grins with the nut in his/her mouth.

As a joke we can hide a red hot chili in one out of a hundred.

By: Rob Wood

Rob Wood — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:54:14 +0000

Well sure, I GUESS you could make them like that, Stiv, but who’s gonna go goving away their best recipes on the internet!?

I am not sure what is happening in Haiti would rate as Pica – I mean, the haitian bakeries are making hundreds of these things. It’s all people can afford.

By: Stiv

Stiv — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:33:10 +0000

Rob nice to see yoiu back writing blogs again! I feel inspired already.

Interesting and sad yet this is the first recipie I’ve seen on this.

Also related to this is the disorder called Pica which in some ways has a relationship to this behavior it isn’t always purely motivated by hunger. I also think there’s a certain type of clay involved sometimes too.

Anyway here’s a little bit on the disorder:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001538.htm

Best,
Stiv

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:42:48 +0000

Even cheaper if you leave out the salt and margarine.

By: Rob Wood

Rob Wood — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:49:18 +0000

Yep, it’s pretty depressing. It’s also pretty depressing that the only places it gets talked about is on the inner pages of a couple of international newspapers and the occasional website.

They say the taste lingers too.

By: Dave Sperow

Dave Sperow — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:33:19 +0000

It is a shame that this can be written and be accurate.