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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.
It is thought to have originated in Gambia but has since spread to the whole of West Africa, especially Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria, among members of the Wolof ethnic group. [9] [10] Kachumbari: East Africa: A fresh tomato and onion salad. Kamounia: Sudan, Tunisia: A beef and liver stew prepared with cumin. Kapana: Namibia
The cuisine is characterized by the use of game meat, maize, and beans, as well as European influences introduced during colonial times. Traditionally, the various cuisines of Africa use a combination of plant-and seed-based ingredients, [5] [6] without having food imported. In some parts of the continent, the traditional diet features an ...
In turn, these slave ships carried African ingredients to the New World, including black-eyed peas and okra. Around the time of the colonial period, particularly during the Scramble for Africa, European settlers defined colonial borders without regard to pre-existing borders, territories or cultural differences. This bisected tribes and created ...
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 ...
For example, using palm oil in okro stew, eto, fante fante, [10] red red or Gabeans, egusi stew, and mpihu/mpotompoto (similar to poi). [11] Coconut oil, palm kernel oil, and shea butter have lost their popularity for cooking in Ghana due to the introduction of refined oils and negative Ghanaian media advertisements targeted at those oils.
Ugali (or bugali), eaten throughout sub-Saharan Africa, is a paste made from maize and water to form a porridge-like consistency. [4] Isombe is made from mashed cassava leaves and served with meat or fish. [3] Matoke is a dish made from baked or steamed bananas. [4]
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