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This is a list of African cuisines. A cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, [ 1 ] often associated with a specific culture . The various cuisines of Africa use a combination of locally available fruits , cereal grains and vegetables , as well as milk and meat products.
A popular West African food made from cassava tubers. Also known as eba. Gatsby: South Africa: A South African style of deli sandwich very similar in content and method of preparation as a hoagie in the United States. It is mostly popular in the Western Cape province. Gored gored: Ethiopia and Eritrea
West African cuisine encompasses a diverse range of foods that are split between its 16 countries. In West Africa, many families grow and raise their own food, and within each there is a division of labor. Indigenous foods consist of a number of plant species and animals, and are important to those whose lifestyle depends on farming and hunting.
Foods that are now important parts of African cuisine such as maize and potatoes were not common until the 19th century. [12] The influence of African food on Caribbean, Brazilian, American Lowcountry cuisine, and Cajun cuisine from Louisiana is seen in rice dishes and green stews like the Afro-Caribbean efo, duckanoo and callaloo.
According to writer and food scholar Dr. Scott Alves Barton, “Yams are considered to be the most common African staple aboard Middle Passage ships; some estimates say 100,000 yams fed 500 ...
Additional foods include onions, garlic, chiles and peanuts. [3] Meat can be scarce in the Central African Republic, although fish is used in a variety of dishes, and other sources of protein include peanuts and insects such as cicadas, grasshoppers, crickets and termites. [3] Common meats in Central African cuisine include chicken and goat. [2]
Other savoury foods, such as meat kebabs, boiled corn cob, boflot/bofrot (puff-puff), and roasted plantain are sold mainly by street food vendors. Ice kenkey is a popular chilled dessert sold by street vendors in open-air markets. [31] Kosua ne meko (eggs with pepper) is a street food sold mostly by street vendors. [32]
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