hacking a camel

A feast of brief hopes, a rally of the proud,/ A tournament of hunchbacks, literature.
Czeslaw Milosz

An hour later the pickup was back with the entire camel in the rear – just without its skin this time. Stage three involves one bedu in his undershirt and wuzar hacking away at the animal, standing on the flatbed. Each mammoth piece – a leg, the odd organ – was slapped down on the mat, where a circle of young men cut the parts into little pieces.

Step three involves putting all the little bits into a huge cauldron over a wood fire in the sand, pouring in water, adding salt and boiling this delightful mix for an hour or more. The piece de resistance is the spoon: an iron rod from some part of the truck that they stuck into the sand when not stirring.

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