Get ready to adjust your idea of what constitutes a yam. In Africa, a yam definitely is not the tuber we so frequently confuse with a supermarket sweet potato. Where real yams are concerned, you need to think bigger. A true yam (from a perennial vine in the Dioscoreaceae family) can grow up to eight feet […]
Lately the food appreciation classes I teach at a private elementary school here in the Dsitrict have been visiting Africa as part of our virtual world culinary tour. I concede immediately that I know very little about African food (except that I love okra and grow lots of it). But I knew that at some point […]
Since we landed in Africa on our virtual world food tour, our food appreciation classes have noticed that the recipes we’ve tried so far are all loaded with fresh, healthful ingredients. This traditional salad from Senegal, called salatu niebein in the native language, is a good example. It starts with cooked black-eyed peas, a legume, […]
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