Where I grew up, it didn’t matter if you were black, white, latin, whatever. You went to have lunch at least once a week at a restaurant in a rough part of town called (appropriately enough) Soul Food. I was a lower-middle class white kid, born to a mother who had grown up poor. Growing […]

As Americans become increasingly adventurous in their culinary explorations, chefs have picked over much of the world to bring new flavor experiences to their customers. Until now, sub-Saharan Africa has been largely ignored, but that is changing as dishes such as jollof rice, suya and fufu begin to emerge on menus, driven largely by chefs […]

The plantain at the Nyamming “explorative dining” experience, held in the belly of TT Liquor in Shoreditch in London, has a lightly fried crust, a starchy bite and is finished with a smear of corn custard and the hot tang of scotch-bonnet chilli jam. It is, as with everything on the four-course menu, evocative of […]