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Pre-independent pioneers of roasting savoury mutton

By Joseph Karimi

Kenya: Kenyans are truly a meat loving people. Even before independence, meat was at the top of Kenyan food. Way back in 1950, my father used to send me to buy meat from the Igatiro, the local butchery at Ruring’u, on the periphery of Nyeri town.

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