Mecca Bos, left, and Uche Iroegbu plate a meal of fufu and stews for a dinner party. Iroegbu missed the traditional foods of his Nigerian homeland and taught himself how to prepare the dishes. He ...

Traditional meals: Fingerlickin' fufu and egusi soup (Recipe) Most Africans will have eaten a type of fufu almost everyday by the time they are old and grey. Our recipe focuses on cassava fufu, paired ...

Toyin Adesayo got into catering after moving to Atlanta from Nigeria in 2002. Though trained as an architect, she realized she could make money serving the kind of home cooking the Nigerian-American ...

Fufu is a staple food across much of Africa, where boiled starchy foods like cassava are pounded into a smooth paste. Fufu serves as an accompaniment to soups and stews, adding texture without ...

African cuisine is a rarity in Western New York restaurants. Besides Ethiopian restaurants and the Southern Sudanese window at the West Side Bazaar, the only African outlet I know of is Sister's ...

As Homer Simpson might say: Mmmmm, carb balls. I remember the first time I encountered this specialty of rural Ghana, where I'm spending two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. My host mom and host ...

Fufu is a traditional dish in Ghana, often made from cassava and plantains or yams. It is usually served with soups or stews such as light soup, groundnut soup, or palm nut soup. In Ivory Coast, fufu ...

“Most of the people who walk in through the door don’t know our food,” said Fatou Dibba, co-owner of the new restaurant at Hewitt and Broadway. It might be a matter of explaining what’s in goat pepper ...

In spring 2022, Chef Fatou Ouattara and husband George Faux reopened their West African restaurant, Akadi PDX, at a new spot on SE Division. While the old location, on NE Martin Luther King Blvd, had ...

Plenty of foods — burgers and fries, pizza, chicken wings and sandwiches — are eaten with one’s hands. But what about soup? If you and your fingertips are up for this type of challenge, head to ...