Earth oven potatoes, milcao chapaleles, and vegetables traditionally prepared in an earth oven. It has spread to the southern areas of Chile. Earth oven cooking is sometimes used for celebratory cooking in North Africa, particularly Morocco: a whole lamb is cooked in an earth oven (called a "tandir", etymologically related to the Central- and South-Asian tandoor and possibly descended from an Akkadian word "tinuru") in a manner similar to the Hawaiian kalua. Among Bedouin and Tuareg nomads, a simple earth oven is used – often when men travel without family or kitchen equipment in the desert. The oven is mostly used to
The Big Oven to keep the oven going, until eventually he is left with nothing but the oven itself and has to go away and live with strangers. The story is a hypothetical fable decrying the folly of stubbornness and ignorance. Danny Kaye recorded a dramatic reading of "The Big Oven" for Little Golden Records in the early 1960s, based on a translation by Nathan Haskell Dole. This recording has been used in English as a second language education. The Big Oven The Big Oven is an 1899 Russian short story attributed to Leo Tolstoy about a man (in other tellings of the