sofasurfers

So while Ollie convalesces at home on his Popeye superfood diet of
crustacea, turbo-seeds and seaweed (I’m guessing), I have some tips
for him from my Mongolian ger. I even sampled it: egg-shell bread,
yes, that’s right, bread made with broken egg shells; the theory of
course being that the crunchy stuff in eggs makes your bones more
crunchy. “Delicious,” I declare (for it was – and not a bit scratchy),
and vowed to relay the recommendation directly to our brave soldier.
And there’s more, Ollie: soot and water, to be mixed and drunk. But
not just any old soot. It has to be soot made from ‘co-pie’. Co-pie?
“Yes,” says my host, “from the co.” Ah – the cow (for they have two
cows just outside our ger; we have been drinking their fresh, hot
milk). Ah, I realise – soot from burnt cow pats. Na Zdrowie.