When you leaf through chef Pierre Thiam’s Senegal: Modern Senegalese Recipes from the Source to…
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I hate SPUR!
I hate SPUR! Assuming that there are those who do not know, SPUR Steak Ranches…
There are apparently only three people in the world that can cook pasta like Wole Soyinka
Soyinka turned 80 this year. We learn this in an interview a Nigerian newspaper did with…
Eating Nando’s in Gaborone
I spent part of last month at the biennial gathering of historians organised by the Southern…
Why didn’t Anthony Bourdain take his show to Cape Town?
Good on The New York Times for publishing an article on South African culinary options…I…
What, dear readers, are your most cherished Ramadan meals and traditions?
It’s that time of year once more – Ramadan Kareem all! Last Ramadan I reminisced about…
Senegalese Sushi
I still mourn the day I walked around to Le Grand Dakar, one of my favorite restaurants in Clinton Hill, and found it was closed. The restaurant, run and owned by Chef Pierre Thiam (check out his interesting family backstory) was a fixture in the block around Grand Ave and Lafayatte.