ABSTRACT
The well-to-do Badawin, such as our man Salim al Muzaiyin or the shaikh of a tribe, has one square meal a day, usually in the evening. This consists of plain rice cooked in semen (ghi), a few dates dipped in butter, some leben (butter-milk), finishing up with coffee. In the early morning he starts the day with some leben and dates, also coffee. He does not often eat meat himself, because he cannot afford to do so. Should a guest of standing arrive, the host will always kill a sheep or lamb for him, which goes the round of the family after the guest has had his share.
