When you leaf through chef Pierre Thiam’s Senegal: Modern Senegalese Recipes from the Source to the Bowl, you’ll be rewa…
Tag: Food
I hate SPUR!
I hate SPUR! Assuming that there are those who do not know, SPUR Steak Ranches is a restaurant chain themed around Nativ…
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 his wife, Folake: He cooks and …
Eating Nando’s in Gaborone
I spent part of last month at the biennial gathering of historians organised by the Southern African Historical Society.…
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 suppose something is bett…
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 my favourite sights and sou…
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 wa…