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 ...

Evi Aki is a first-generation American, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. She was on a path to become a doctor when she started a food blog as a creative outlet and used it to explore her African ...

Recently, Alisa Rosa, a mom of one of our lil’ chefs, contacted me about a school project her child was working on. Chef Ariana, 6, had to do some research about Africa and make a simple recipe to ...

The African Heritage Cookbook: A Chronicle of the Origins of Soul Food Cooking, with 200 Authentic—and Delicious—recipes by Helen Mendes, published in 1971. The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African ...

In this series, Em Chan visits ethnic grocery stores and provides both a deep dive and recommendations for how to use products that may not have English to explain what they are or how to eat them.

“Where are the black food writers?” asks Toni Tipton-Martin. A native Angeleno, author and community activist, Tipton-Martin has frequently wrestled with that question during her 31-year food-writing ...