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Who can describe funkasa? I had a request today for information on what is described as a millet pancake, probably a Hausa food. I'm not...

" Kuli-kuli is calling me to come and buy" Today while looking through Mother Africa's Table: A Collection of West African an...

Africa in Brasil (Brazil) My husband is in Brasil/Brazil this October (2006). It turns out a number of people there never saw my pictures ...

Egusi soup and yam pottage, a conversation about Nigerian cuisine We met in Wegmans, her grocery cart filled with collard greens, and I disc...

Coming soon to a store near you (or maybe already there!) I was delighted to find our local Wegman's has begun carrying Julie and Albert...

"They Keep Their Fires Burning" Conversations on food, manners and hospitality in Africa" Another good book to know about: Ge...

Africa's Culinary Star Rising I just received my copy of Samuelsson's The Soul of a New Cuisine today, and I'm thrilled. He...

I've just posted a pdf file of the slides from the powerpoint talk I gave in Boston over the summer at the Association for the Study of...

I just discovered http://www.cafepress.com/buy/fufu/africa , a great site to order African food-related t-shirts . I ordered "got fufu?...

The kitchen's hot, why not get out and savor some summer reading on African food and culture? Try anthropologist Karen Flynn's sober...

Sub-Saharan African Cuisine in the media and the mind How do people in the U.S. and Canada view sub-Saharan African cuisine? Do they even kn...

I was happy to notice a recent post about Ghanaian cooking on the World On a Plate blog. I also heard Anthony Bourdain's May interview ...

Nkwan Pa! ("Good Soup". . . Bon Appetit!) : I recently became aware of another self-published Ghanaian cookbook that deserves wide...

Podcast News: Fran on Eat Feed Podcast and Hosting African Culinary Podcasts BETUMI: The African Culinary Network has begun airing podcasts,...

Chemical engineer Dr. Yaw Adusei, talks about fufu and fufu flour Dr. Yaw Adusei, an Ashanti, a chemical engineer trained in Ghana, Hollan...

Interview with leading West African culinary professional Barbara Baeta, in which she discusses various forms of cassava dishes, including g...

Microwave Fufu Recipe Just before I left for Seattle at the end of March to attend the International Association of Culinary Professionals...

I'd like to know why you think African, especially Sub-Saharan African, cooking has historically been so devalued and ignored by the Wes...

As many of you know, spam has been interrupting our conversations for some time now. Since the BETUMI FORUM and my journal were actually for...