The Dying Art And Culture of Cooking in Most Nairobi Homes

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By Jay Kioko

I live in a surrounding where people don’t seem to be cooking anymore. Eating out and from out has become the norm. Terrific Tuesdays primarily meant for school kids and ‘adult children’ have transitioned to terrific every day for everyone.

As you get nearer to the gate, one can see not less than ten motorbikes doing food deliveries to families living here. Their labels are very conspicuous… Jumia eats, Glovo, Uber Eats, Bolt Eats and all kinds of other eats companies. Infact, in this area if you have a food outlet and you ain’t doing home deliveries for food, you ain’t in business.

Now, as you walk up the stairs to your ‘digz’, you expect to smell food aromas of various cuisines being prepared for dinner…chapati and stew here, pilau there, muthokoi over there, njahe and thufu downstairs, nyama choma and ugali across, mapochopocho ya pwani upstairs etc. A conglomeration of such aromas can knock you down, relief the day’s stress as you enter your residence from work.

But alas… You smell nothing at all as you you walk upstairs. The smell is as flat as in a desert. If you are walking outside the gate and up the road and you are keen enough, you can spot an army of coackroaches migrating from that residence.

Initially, eating out was only meant for Sundays after church and that was primarily going out for Nyama choma. Why are families ordering ugali and beef stew for dinner? The other day I bumped into a Glovo rider at 8 am carrying a thermos flask and i could smell some mandazis and samosas. I think what was in the flask was tea…Ordering tea from outside???? So what has made families adopt this western culture of eating out and from out?
… tomorrow in my next post

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