Co-op Profile-Anna Gourlay | Now | Drexel University: "Gourlay, a vegetarian, also had to plan to adapt to the heavy meat-based Mongolian diet and gradually increase the amount of meat she ate every day in the weeks before she flew over.
“In Mongolia, it was either don’t eat or eat meat. There wasn’t another option. And it didn’t go well at first during the first couple weeks of eating meat. I didn’t really digest it well,” she explained.
In the countryside, where Gourlay spent most of her time, the Mongolians couldn’t grow crops because of the cold temperature, so much of the diet consisted of animal dairy and meat products. An example of a typical Mongolian meal is horhog, or sheep cooked with steam and hot rocks."
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