Cover the pits with earth firmly. Cook for eight to nine hours. Bon appétit! By evening the hot steaming mumu was opened and a feast followed. Rom dug into the sweet potatoes and the meat. There was even a Christmas cake – made of grubs. Large sago palm trees were chopped down for their pith, a staple in the local people’s diet. Capricorn beetles laid eggs in the rotting stumps, and soon there were hundreds of plump, juicy white grubs, a much sought-after delicacy in these parts. Rom didn’t care enough for the cake to write down the recipe.
