Glossary I
Iresi is the Nigerian term for "rice". Rice is cooked in several ways in Nigeria. (1) Wwhite is rice cooked or steamed in water, then usually covered with soup which is eaten with beans, plantains, me or fish; (2) Jollof rice: rice cooked with ground tomatoes, peppers, sometimes meat and vegetables, other spices, and comes out reddish in color which is eaten with beans, plantain meat or fish; and (3) Fried ricwhich are cooked in oils, vegetables, meats, and spices which is eaten with plantain, beans, meat or fish.
Inca Cola refers to a Peruvian drink; a soft drink which is bright yellow in color and it smells like bubble gum.
Iftar is the Turkish word which means:
1. the fasting breaking dinner in Ramadan:
2. the food eaten to break Ramadan
3. the breaking of the Ramadan fast; and
4. the evening meal during Ramadan
During the Ramada celebration, particularly after sundown or sunset families eat perhaps their best meal of the year that they have saved for the celebration. This special meal is called the Iftar which is usually huge as the family has been fasting the whole day.
iftari foods eaten to break Ramadan