It's a difficult story. The importance of water and the inescapable experience of thirst pervade Sahara Unveiled. It did right away. Water is life. Now when it rains, I often turn my face up and open my mouth to let the raindrops fall in.
Rain is the gift of nature.
It's an amazing phenomenon that this life falls from the sky. Since there are very poor people in the Sahara who eat very little, it's difficult to know what to say about diet in an average sense. However if you take the core of the Sahara and talk about what people would like to eat if they could eat anything they want, their diets would consist largely of couscous, rice, and palm dates. Saharans are crazy about dates, and as a result they have very bad teeth. There's also great bread that's cooked in the sand.