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milk, the type most widely consumed, is a recurring ingredient in dishes and drinks. In Mauritania, for example, zrigue, the national drink, is made with fermented milk mixed with water sweetened with sugar and is served by families to guests. The Pokot peo- ple of Kenya, on the other hand, add the ash of the native cromwo tree to yogurt to sterilize and flavor it. While cow’s, zebu’s, goat’s and ewe’s milk is used for processing, camel’s milk, which is very low in fat, is traditionally drunk fresh.miLk is WEaLthand ProsPErityBesides providing for necessity, live- stock breeding also allows commu- nities to survive. The animals, in fact, are at once a way to save, a luxury commodity, and currency for com- mercial transactions—and are still used today to pay dowries. Aminata, a Fulani woman in the Bobo-Dioulas- so region of Burkina Faso, said that, “Here zebus produce an average of a liter of milk a day [compared to the average 28 liters produced by cat- tle in Europe ed.]. Today breeders no longer own pastureland. I try to23