Sun-cooked cuisine tickles taste buds

LEANING over for a closer look, Lucas Nsukazi frowned at a black pot in a plastic bag sitting in a reflector made of cardboard and aluminum foil. “Does it really work?” he asked.

But when he was served a bowl of steaming rice, he broke into a smile.

"For the first time I am eating and enjoying rice that is cooked directly by the sun's rays, which to me is unbelievable," the South African rural education activist said.