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There is a surging sense of hope and creativity regarding things culinary in Ghana. Some of those, like fat-laden fried chicken, potato “chi...

The rainy season has begun, and last week I noticed a huge yellow/brown mushroom growing outside our flat at the University of Ghana. A coup...

Sorry about the long silence in my postings. I've started numerous blogs but keep moving on to the next thing before I put them up: on ...

Ghanaian Convenience foods Since arriving in Ghana I’ve been dealing with some food challenges. The first one is getting/making fermented co...

This week my husband and I headed to Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana. Driving along the palm-lined coast we passed through Elmina and ...

waakye.JPG Originally uploaded by betumi Things have already been hectic in 2008: 3 continents in as many weeks. We left Brazil Jan. 2, ...

African food historians and scholars who are based in Africa can lead lonely lives. They need contact with and support of like-minded people...

This week in Rio has been filled with fantastic opportunities to get to know Teresa Corção and Margarida Nogueira and their Manioc Project ....

I'm having a lot of cooking lessons these last few weeks before I leave Brazil. This month I learned the basics for making feijoada, th...

More on garden eggs : Several types of garden eggs ( Solanum aethiopicum ) are grown in Ghana, with local names like aworoworo , obolo , as...

Okay, I admit it. This post is about African culture in Brazil, not just African food culture, but the line is kind of blurry, isn'...

We've been in Brazil for 3 months. We're getting really tired of omo tuo (rice balls) in all our Ghanaian soups. I decided this wee...

A few weeks ago, a Brazilian friend and I went to lunch at an award-winning cafe in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. One of the featured items ...

The 2 latest additions to The Africa Cookbook Project include Devra Moehler's contribution of Taste of Uganda: Recipes for traditional ...

I just discovered the site of Yeti Ezeanii, a West African transplanted to the U.S. who shares the vision to meet the acute need for quality...

I've learned a great Portuguese culinary word: refogado . The book Barbara Baeta and I are writing on Ghanaian regional cuisine has a se...

Here's the chart I mentioned that I put together to try and organize my understanding of some of the most common starches/carbohydrates ...

Did you know that: 1. cassava (or manioc, or mandioca ) is originally from Brazil? 2. cassava spread from Brazil to Asia and Africa? 3. toda...

This past weekend was my 35th wedding anniversary, and to celebrate my husband and I took a trip to a small historical colonial town a few h...