Here is Aaron's report on what food is like in Papua New Guinea. Because we don't have a refrigerator, we have to eat a lot of foods that don't spoil. We have an oven made from a metal drum that we use to make pizza, cake and bread. To freshen up our diet, we also buy some fresh veggies from the Hagahai, usually greens, pumpkins, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, corn, and bamboo shoots. They cook it in a fire and also eat it with salt or plain.
Cooked bananas are very popular.
The Hagahai also eat greens, vegetables and tropical fruits like mango, guava, and papaya from their gardens, and fish, wild birds, insects, grubs, cuscus and tree kangaroo when they can get them. They hunt for birds, cuscus and tree kangaroo with bow and arrow. They have an immense knowledge of the rainforest, and I'm sure eat all kinds of other things from there that I don't even know about. For special occasions, all Papua New Guineans hold a feast called a mumu. A mumu is just about the only occasion where that most prized of animals, the pig, is cooked and eaten.