Recently, when I asked chef Pierre Thiam why West African cuisine was suddenly being touted as a new food trend, he laughed and said, “It’s been around for a few thousand years.” Then he thought for a ...

FLINT, MI — The community is invited to enjoy a tasting of African American cuisine and learn how it changed America in a critically acclaimed documentary. A viewing of the High on the Hog: How ...

I grew up with African food, but in a Lebanese way. Let’s take my mum’s okra stew — the African version is filled with fried fish, cow foot, sheep tail, oxtail and beef all in one stew — while ...

Natalie Daise's first children's book about making okra stew acts as the backdrop for a story about family, tradition and sankofa. Sankofa is the act of going back for the good in the past and ...