Pidn Gimoro-Boo Accord


The fabled Boo banana has been going places since the first post that has so far reached 27 thousand eaters. One of the cool places it landed is in Kisumu. Kisumu is the place I first attended school. A relative was working there and I was lucky to join him briefly. I remember a tomato plant that was growing just beside the main entrance. My brother was so agonized about leaving it behind that he toyed with the idea of uprooting it and taking it with us. On second thoughts he decided against it, but it was too late. The poor tomato plant had already been uprooted and it is quite unlikely that it survived. 

I thought about it for a long time as It was my chore to water the plant. I never forgot about it and hoped that our neighbor Akinyi and her family would enjoy it. That was about 50 years ago. For the love of food and the Akinyi who scolded anyone who looked down on me due to my ethnicity we shared some eclectic tomato seeds that might be new in the area such as Purple Cherokee tomatoes. It wasn’t accidental either, I am in Cherokee county now and feeling at home just like I felt at home in Kisumu courtesy of kind souls like Akinyi. I learned my first lesson about the stupidity of cultural and ethnic prejudice in Kisumu. The experience prepared me for new flavors and fight for justice. I am happy to pay the half century debt just in time before the jubilee forgiveness of debt. 

The six packs of seeds for bribery to the co-owners of The Peasant Shamba, namely Cynthia the Green Grass Snake, Alfonso the Cunning Chameleon, George the Randy Frog, Osama the Fat Obongo Bongo, Matilda the Slay Butterfly and Aluoch and Oluoch the free birds. We believe in justice and so do our beautiful ladies ( suckers) so everyone gets one packet of seeds of his or her choice. 

Let freedom ring at the Peasant Farm, where our in-laws believe that all creatures are worthy and none is more equal than the other. If the Peasants Shamba team works together like the mighty team of Gor Mahia,, your counterparts and in-laws from our farm, the Mugudanda team, will promise to attend the first harvest of the daughters of Boo/Bùù Banana  with an appropriate brew. Let freedom ring from Peasant Farm by the shores of Lake Nam Lolwe (formerly colonized as Lake Victoria) to slopes of Kirínyaga mountain ( formerly colonized as Mount Kenya). May we all look forward to that day that all those involved in this great union will enjoy a meal together and hopefully I can be accorded the privilege of choreographing an Afro Futuristic recipe worth many cheers. I can already imagine the reaction of Cynthia, the Green grass Snake, with a quip after her first bite of that Afro Futuristic dish prepared with the fabled Bùù from the slopes of Kírínyaga and tended in the shores of Lake Nam Lolwe , with “Dher Kado Okuyu'' (eccentric remark signifying a great taste ) and at the sound of her voice, Pidn Gimoro Accord will take effect for another 500 years of literacy, peace and prosperity. Food justice would have accomplished what many other efforts had failed. Pidn Gimoro/ Thayù and Thayù literally means plant something /peace. That is essentially what Food Justice is. 

Thayù Thayù /

Pidn Gimoro 

Chef Kabui

The Hex Kitchen is a collaboration between Chef Kabui and the Hex community in a bid to promote food literacy, mindful eating and wealth creation. There is a natural connection between those who are fighting against fiat currency and those engaged in the struggle against fiat food. The two social ills of fiat currency and fiat food are at the heart of the tyrannic global world system we are now living in. That tyranny is directly connected to the climate crisis we face and there is no way we can solve one part of the problem without being mindful of the whole system, For a start, the Hex Kitchen is keen on addressing the issues of real money and real food as a basis on regaining our sovereign power. It is no accident that the struggle for food justice would find allies in cryptography and more specifically cryptocurrency. It is not a usual collaboration but yet it is one that makes sense on many levels. Chef Kabui has been studying and applying the power of food literacy, mindful eating and food justice in the struggle against oppression in general and specifically to people of African descent.

Chef Kabui has studied the disciplines of politics, anthropology and culinary arts and has designed a cuisine or rather an approach to food that is informed by the above experience and the indigenous knowledge that he gained from his Kenyan family’s history as sustainable farmers for generations. The combined experience and education resulted in the creation of a cuisine called Afro Futuristic Conscious Cuisine. It is a combination of the most sustainable practices in the growing, preparation of food with the goal of causing the least damage to the environment and maximizing the health benefits of the food. Those two conditions are necessary for a mindful community that ensures that justice thrives.

Chef Kabui has been pushing organic food and healthy eating based on his research and his own experience. The idea of healthy food and justice is not something that chef Kabui got into but was born in it. His family operated a farm and his father ran a restaurant in the capital city of Nairobi. Kabui grew up in the village with his mother where they grew almost all the food they consumed. It was at his family farm that he Kabui developed a love for fresh food and the art of consuming food following the natural cycles of seasons.

The collaboration aims to share the skills for healthy food to the Hex community and beyond. No community can survive without food and the Hex community is no different. The Hex Kitchen is another assembly point for the community to be nourished both physically and socially. While wealth is private, food is social and having a kitchen for the community to assemble is a great option for a community that is causing ripples across the world.

What to Expect

The Kitchen will have virtual classes, content on Youtube and other social media presence for a start. The goal is that the Kitchen will have a physical place that will have a kitchen in a farm that will grown food and have space that guest can visit. The farm will have a demonstration farm for the vegetables, fruits and herbs,

For the schedule of upcoming classes please visit our events section and find a class that is fit for your schedule.