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Italy has polenta , Ghana has kenkey . This steamed fermented corn dough dish from Ghana has several versions. The two most well-known inclu...

Here are 3 brief videos to help you make perfect moin-moin . The first is a 2-minute introduction, followed by a 10-minute summary of the in...

As they say in Ghana, "Little by little, the chicken drinks water." The tea bread recipe is getting better and better. I've a...

Coming Soon : Black-eyed peas are frequently prepared as savory steamed puddings throughout Western and Central Africa. Last October I intro...

I've probably had more interest expressed in finding a recipe for Ghana's tea bread than any other recipe. In 2002 in Ghana I asked...

TEDGLOBAL "Africa: The Next Chapter" The insightful and far-seeing organizers and supporters of the upcoming TEDGLOBAL conference...

More African Cooking Lessons on DVD An enterprising couple, Antony Kovilparambil and Marina Antony, have developed a set of budget-priced et...

Touch of Africa 2007 Penn State recently held its annual African food and culture event sponsored by the African Students Association. This...

Making Ghana-style Microwave Fufu, Parts 1 and 2 Here's our first "how to" video demonstrating step-by-step how to make microw...

African Culinary Videos I'm exploring African cooking/culinary videos on the Web. There's been quite a bit of positive buzz about An...

Advice on opening and operating an African restaurant from Berkeley, California I just returned from my first African Studies Association co...

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?...