Back at the farm, the Abdullahi daughters were frying rice flour with ground walnuts - pancakes for everyone.
Traditionally, folk artists mix water with wheat and glutinous rice flour.
They are so confident about their work that they believe the fungus technique could lead to small-scale industry in towns across Africa, where the spores could be grown on sorghum and rice flour.
According to the American Diabetes Association , the best way to identify healthy grains is to look at the ingredient list and make sure the first ingredient in starchy foods is whole wheat flour, brown rice, rye flour, barley or oats.
Trucks are still moving, as the country exports rice and flour to Tibet.
Mr Hale, speaking via satellite telephone, says his family is struggling with an old power generator and food that is not much more than rice and flour.
That first morning I was the village's star attraction: Whole families had turned out to inspect me and watch my guide, Rajan Singh a garrulous local man with a sun-lined face haggle for vegetables, rice and flour in preparation for our foray into the high Himalayas.
He has done this for a few commodities, such as rice, wheat flour, soyabeans and sugar.
We get cooking oil, sometimes rice, and flour.
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The dhows are stacked with pasta, rice, sugar, flour and cooking oil.
Nor was he less determined when the men marched out of the dairy with sacks of sugar, cornmeal, flour, and rice on their shoulders.
They sell lentils, wheat-flour, parboiled rice, curry powders, chickpeas and toiletries.
Officials said the team is concentrating on more than the two companies believed to have exported the melamine in wheat flour mislabeled as wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate.
New cafes are opening, sniper screens are coming down and shops are selling exotic fruits once again, but most people living in the city are unemployed and 70% of the population are wholly or partly dependent on aid supplies of flour, pasta, beans and rice.
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