BAKING BREAD IN SAND AND ASHES: TAGUELLA OF THE TUAREG

The Tuareg have a special way of baking bread, which is called taguella. It’s a simple flat bread baked in the embers of a fire, basically the hot sand and ashes of a little bonfire. It’s typically made of wheat, millet, or semolina

I love this way of making bread. It’s very efficient if you think about it. The Tuareg are nomadic people, and this enables them to make a bread without needing any kind of oven or pan: just using hot sand, charcoal, ashes. You hit the baked bread a few times so that none of it sticks to the bread, and if it does, you just don’t eat that part.