Editing Maasai people (section)

=== Cuisine ===

[[File:Maasai man with cattle.jpg|thumb|224x224px|A Maasai herdsman grazing his cattle inside the [[Ngorongoro Conservation Area]], Tanzania]]
Traditionally, the Maasai cuisine consisted of raw meat, raw milk, honey and [[Blood as food|raw blood]] from [[cattle]]—note that the Maasai cattle are of the [[Zebu]] variety.

Most of the milk is consumed as fermented milk or [[buttermilk]] (a by-product of butter making). Milk consumption figures are very high by any standards.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0251e/T0251E07.htm |title=The technology of traditional milk products in developing countries |publisher=Fao.org |access-date=2012-02-28 |archive-date=2012-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227061816/http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0251e/T0251E07.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.taa.org.uk/TAAScotland/LivestockasfoodforpastoralistsinAfrica2001.htm |title=Livestock as food for pastoralists in Africa |last=Suttie |first=J.M. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311031855/http://www.taa.org.uk/TAAScotland/LivestockasfoodforpastoralistsinAfrica2001.htm |archive-date=11 March 2009}}</ref>

The Maasai herd goats and sheep, including the [[Red Maasai sheep]], as well as the more prized cattle.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/4202/ILCA_SS_4.pdf?sequence=1 |title=Maasai herding: An analysis of the livestock production system of Maasai pastoralists in eastern Kajiado District, Kenya |date=1991 |editor-last=Bekure |editor-first=Solomon |editor2-last=Leeuw |editor2-first=P. N. de |format=PDF |via=CGSpace |access-date=2020-02-02 |editor3-last=Grandin |editor3-first=B. E. |editor4-last=Neate |editor4-first=P. J. H. |publisher=International Livestock Centre for Africa |archive-date=2021-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711081909/https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/4202/ILCA_SS_4.pdf?sequence=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Amin|Willetts|Eames|1987|p=87}}

Although consumed as snacks, fruits constitute a major part of the food ingested by children and women looking after cattle as well as morans in the bush.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001266/126660e.pdf |title=Ethnobotany of the Loita Maasai: towards community management of the Forest of the Lost Child; experiences from the Loita Ethnobotany Project; People and plants working paper; Vol.:8; 2001 |access-date=2012-02-28 |archive-date=2012-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607222155/http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001266/126660e.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Amin|Willetts|Eames|1987|p=90}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.maasai-association.org/maasai.htm|title=maasai-association.org}}</ref>
[[File:Musoke Deo MDK-MUSO A Traditional Medicines & Herbs Hawker from Masaai Tribe.png|thumb|A traditional Maasai Medicines And Herbs hawker]]