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In November I asked readers  whether they could steer me to information about akpi . One of my daughters had recently made a soup with her b...

It's been 7 weeks since I've found my way to the computer. It's also been a full holiday season beginning with our American Than...

While I was in California, my daughter and son-in-law took me to their favorite African food store, Specialty Foods, Inc. at 535 8th St., Oa...

Here's the recipe I promised for the oh-so-easy-to-make rice balls, just like those Katie captured at Commonwealth Hall at the Universit...

Roasted pureed peanuts (groundnuts) are frequently used to thicken soups or stews in Sub-Saharan African cooking, and are particularly famou...

The November 2010 issue of Brussels Airlines' inflight magazine bspirit! features a touristy article "African Cuisine 2.0"...

For the record, I'm a confirmed chocoholic. In October I had some fabulous creamy hot chocolate at a little shop in Santa Cruz, Californ...

Yesterday I introduced palmnut soup and today I continue to celebrate the much-maligned palm fruit, basic to this most wonderful of soups, ...

Palmnut soup has many names. For example, it is commonly known as ab e nkwan in Ghana,  mbanga soup in Cameroon, and banga in Nigeria. ...

I recently returned from a trip to the West Coast of the U.S. While there I took the opportunity to stop by one of my favorite bookstores, P...

Katie Cochrane (the PSU student who accompanied me for part of my trip to Ghana this summer) and I recently summarized our experiences in a ...

It's been a while since you've heard from BETUMIblog.  After I returned from Nigeria in August the logic board on my computer died, ...

It's been several weeks since I've had time to post. The final 2 weeks of June in Ghana were quite full doing research and preparing...

On Wed., June 16, Katie and I spent the day at the University of Ghana, Legon. We first met with with Rose Omari, a food scientist with the ...

It's almost time for the new yams to appear on the scene in Ghana, but yesterday I bought 9 old puna yams for 25 cedis ($18, or $2 p...