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Easy recipe: Athola (Photo: iStock)

In the olden days long before refrigerators were invented, foodstuffs used to be stored when dried or dehydrated via smoking, salting, or roasting.

The Luo community still has one of those traditions intact, as they roast their meat to store it. This meat is famously known as athola, which means roasting.

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