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It's been hectic for me lately. Las t Saturday nigh t was Penn State's annual Touch of Africa celebration sponsored by the African ...

Anyone familiar with African cuisines knows that grinding and pounding are important cooking techniques, and texture matters. She or he also...

I received word today that BETUMIblog has been listed as one of the 100 Best Blogs for Learning About Africa . It's thrilling to be in...

African food historians (historiographers?), I just discovered a great resource. In 2005, the School of Humanities of the University of West...

My daughter Abena delighted me in December with multiple Christmas gifts from Madagascar, including this t-shirt emblazoned with "Ravit...

One of the ongoing dilemmas for those outside of Africa is how to reproduce "homestyle" flavor. Last February I mentioned Elisha P...

A comment posted recently by Gnu Guru reminded me that some of you may not be aware of the series currently being compiled by NAP, the Nati...

Greenwood Press has just published (2008) an eclectic 2-volume encyclopedia on the history of dining and entertaining called Entertaining: F...

My daughter Abena, a (an) historian of science at the University of California in Berkeley, is currently in Madagascar doing research. She s...

November is "Diabetes Month" and in recognition of "World Diabetes Day" (today, Nov. 14)," BBC Africa has been disc...

In August, 2007, Co-TED Fellow, Friedrich Erhard Randriamiakatra, a cooking teacher at the National Institute of Tourism and Hotel Busines...

Not only did I discover Brazil in Ghana (see my previous blog posting), I once again discovered Africa in Brazil, and not only in Bahia. In ...

Just before we left Ghana in July, one day we dropped in at the Brazilian Embassy to chat with the wonderfully friendly and helpful staff t...

I remember a conversation with Barbara Baeta one day when she was talking about how Laurens van der Post came to Ghana and met with her in t...

The Africa Cookbook Project has 3 new cookbooks. First, thank you to Ghanaian Charles Cann for a copy of his 2007 Tropical Ghana Delights ...

For years I've wanted to visit Kakum National Park in Ghana to walk its rope bridges and get a birds'-eye view of the rain forest. ...

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