CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It is a kitchen truth universally acknowledged that mothers cook with expediency and grandmothers cook with love. Across cultures and classes, grandmas are the tender guardians of ...

West African cuisine, says Chef Pierre Thiam, is all about "variety and community." It's a unique brand of dimensionality, history, and culture that inspired his upcoming cookbook. "Simply West ...

The US dining scene boasts hundreds of culturally specific restaurants, but when it comes to African food, we seem to have little beyond Ethiopian. Why don’t we have a better selection of that ...

We had to talk about the plantain frittata. Nina Oduro wouldn’t let me leave our video call before sharing what she loved about the dish. The flavor profile, Oduro told me, is typical in West Africa, ...

Keeping with its roots in ancient and ongoing African first-fruits celebrations, Kwanzaa is all about community, unity and culture. "Some years it's a good harvest, some years it's a bad harvest," ...

It's easy to forget that in a past life Smalls was also a Grammy- and Tony Award-winning opera singer. You’ve written books before about African American food and the African diaspora, but this ...

This week, Ike's Cafe & Grill shared its recipe for bofrot, or puff puff, a popular West African dessert similar to a doughnut. The post World Cup Recipe: West African bofrot (or puff-puff) from Ike’s ...

PITTSBURGH — Alexander Smalls was a professional opera singer before he reinvented himself as a chef and restaurateur. So it’s no surprise he brings an artist’s eye to the recipes he created for his ...

Hawa Hassan, Somali chef and owner of BasBaas, has a brand new cookbook, In Bibi’s Kitchen hitting shelves this week. This expansive, visually captivating book is a collection of 75 recipes and ...

Back in 2020, esteemed chef and James Beard-winning writer and cookbook author Alexander Smalls was deep in research about the foundations of African cooking and cuisine in preparation for an expo in ...