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Universal Peace Buddha Temple, Brooklyn

The finished htamane is dense and heavy. At least two men worked together to empty each wok.

Htamane is a glutinuous rice dish mixed with ginger, coconut, sesame, peanuts, and copious amounts of oil. The Htamane feast marks the first harvest of the year, in which the best crops are set aside to offer to the monks. It's believed that these particular ingredients combine to create a healthy warmth in the body during the chilly season. Preparing htamane takes several hours and the hands of many temple members.

More Htamane photos here.

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Tri-x @3200 | Ilford MGIV RC
Universal Peace Buddha Temple, Brooklyn

Traditionally, as the htamane feast is a communal celebration, all participants are welcome to contribute ingredients. However, the food for this particular Htamane festival-- including noodles and desserts--was fully sponsored by the UNDP Myanmar.

Htamane is a glutinuous rice dish mixed with ginger, coconut, sesame, peanuts, and copious amounts of oil. The Htamane feast marks the first harvest of the year, in which the best crops are set aside to offer to the monks. It's believed that these particular ingredients combine to create a healthy warmth in the body during the chilly season. Preparing htamane takes several hours and the hands of many temple members.

More Htamane photos here.

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Tri-x @3200 | Ilford MGIV RC
Universal Peace Buddha Temple, Brooklyn

More Htamane photos here.

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Tri-x @3200 | Ilford MGIV RC
Universal Peace Buddha Temple, Brooklyn

The duty of washing the glutinous rice for htamane usually falls to young women.

More Htamane photos here.

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Olympus OM-2N | Fuji Neopan 1600@3200 | Ilford MGIV RC
Universal Peace Buddha Temple, Brooklyn

Sesame, peanuts, coconut, oil. Tearing apart coconuts was extremely time-consuming last year, so this year chopped coconut was purchased from an Indian market.

Htamane is a glutinuous rice dish mixed with ginger, coconut, sesame, peanuts, and copious amounts of oil. The Htamane feast marks the first harvest of the year, in which the best crops are set aside to offer to the monks. It's believed that these particular ingredients combine to create a healthy warmth in the body during the chilly season. Preparing htamane takes several hours and the hands of many temple members.

More Htamane photos here.

Posted on March 23, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Olympus OM-2N | Delta 100 | Fotokemika Emaks K-888 #2

Facebooky folks out there: we set up a fan page :).
www.facebook.com/pages/We-Are-One-Malawi/337901826931?ref=mf

All the info for our upcoming fundraiser will be posted there, and on our website. But in brief:

Friday, May 7th
The City Bakery
8pm-12am

Wine, beer, lots of good food. Awesome silent auction. My friend's documentary film on view. Er, some sort of other entertainment. That will probably be really good. And...prints. Yeah. Prints on display. Sorry, trailing off a bit...we're working out the details. Including designing an actual invite...haven't had much time lately...I'll get to it. DId I mention the wine and beer, though?!

Still happy to take silent auction items!

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Plus-x | Ilford MGIV RC

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