Tuesday, February 25, 2014

More thoughts on snacking on toasted corn

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The consensus was that  the crunchy version of toasted corn from yesterday's posting was a bit hard to chew. Since there was no dried...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Ghana-style snack: toasted corn and peanuts

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In Ghana, people snack on nuts (as in tiger nuts , groundnuts [peanuts], cashews, etc. ) often combined with something else, such as fr...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Tiger Nuts: Another African food discovered by US health food enthusiasts

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Tiger nuts (aka "chufa," or technically, Cyperus Esculentas ), are included in the 1996 initial book in the Lost Crops of Afric...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

New Year, News from BETUMI: calling recipe testers

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It has been awhile since we have posted. No, we didn't lose interest in promoting, preserving, and celebrating Africa's food and c...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Africa Cookbook Projects, Original and New

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In my previous post I promised to share about what's happening with BETUMI's "mountain moving" projects.   BETUMI's...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

Bissap and Plantain Chips at TED Fellows Retreat

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This past August (2013), I was invited to attend the first ever TED Fellows Retreat, held in breath-taking Whistler, Canada. The "re...
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Monday, September 09, 2013

Around the House, kpakpo shito and water leaf

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Fall is now arriving in the US. Nights are getting colder, yet the warm memories of a month in Ghana during June and July are still strong...
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Friday, August 02, 2013

Pure Sugar Cane: Swizzle Sticks to Snacks

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In central Pennsylvania, it's almost impossible to get fresh sugar cane. In Ghana it's a totally different reality. Last month I exp...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

African Development for the Kitchen: Ghana Kitchen-wear

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During this trip to Ghana, BETUMI is working with a talented young designer at Low Design Office (who happens to be my son) and local se...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

BETUMI Photo Exhibit at Penn State

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Though I'm in Ghana, my thoughts are turning towards the upcoming fall semester that begins at Penn State in August. Helen Sheehy , He...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Flair turns 45!

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I've been in Ghana for almost 2 weeks. The highlight so far was celebrating Flair Catering's 45th Anniversary and the graduation of ...
Sunday, June 02, 2013

Cassava: beyond tapioca pudding

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In graduate school back in the 1980s, "cassava" was pretty much  a dirty word: empty calories, starchy, toxic, starvation/subsis...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

Groundnut Paste No-flour Biscuit (Cookie)

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I'm currently spending a couple of months in California, with time split between my own mother (84 years old) and my granddaughter,...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Borlaug Fellows Do Up an African Feast

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In April 2013, several Borlaug Fellows visiting Penn State as part of the USAID's Feed the Future program spent two days in my hom...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Tasting Cultures and Food Exhibit in New York City

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I was recently in New York City and finally had a chance to meet up with a kindred spirit--the talented, creative, savvy, exuberant Sarah ...
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