SLOWLY, as a country, we need to begin accepting that there is more to life than nshima. Zambia is a nation that genuinely believes that food means nshima and nshima means food. We have conditioned ourselves to think that a meal is incomplete unless there is a mountain of maize meal sitting in the middle of the plate. Yet nutritionally, culturally and economically, this is a mindset we need to begin challenging. One can survive, live healthily and eat satisfactorily without nshima every day. Our problem is not that nshima is bad. Far from it. Our problem is that we have elevated one food into a national obsession, and that obsession has consequences for our food security.   Because Zambians...