West Africa

With 16 countries encompassing West Africa, you know the dishes in West African cuisine are full of flavor and deliciousness! Here at One Green Planet,…

Emily Meggett, the author of Gullah Geechee Home Cooking. Meggett published her cookbook at age 89. Clay Williams/Courtesy of Abrams hide caption toggle caption Clay…

How to Give Your Dishes a West African Twist  iAfrica.com Source link

"Jollof rice is the heart of Africa," said Patience Ogunbanjo, a Nigerian chef at Lasgidi Cafe in Phoenix.The dish is served throughout West Africa, from Senegal to…

Lowcountry cuisine is steeped in a rich, yet complicated history with ingredients that made it to the states from Africa during the slave trade and…

As we begin to assemble the ingredients for the obe ata—a tomato, sweet pepper, and hot chile purée that serves as the base for the…

African cooking is our latest obsession, with West African cuisine, the dishes of Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal, especially fashionable. Tap ‘jollof rice’ into TikTok or…

If you haven’t heard of fonio until recently (or now), you’re not alone. For decades, the tiny seeds cultivated in West Africa since ancient times…

While some Americans are increasingly moving away from white rice toward wild and other variants, many dishes of the African Atlantic world still hark back…

Food and drink play an essential role in independence celebrations the world over. For many Black Americans, Independence Day is celebrated on June 19, or…