Foutou,rice or placali?

If your steps ever lead you to Ivory Coast someday, you may ask yourself this terrific question that sounds like a dilemma: are you going to accompany your okra sauce with placali, rice or foutou? Like Hamlet could have said: foutou or not foutou? The Ivorian food is not only about alloco and attiéké, some traditional dishes that tend to be spread and shared beyond African boundaries. The multiplicity of … Continue reading Foutou,rice or placali?

CHOCOLATE CONGO BAR BROWNIE RECIPE

Skip the store—this recipe is so much better. Pastry Chef Mame Sow draws her inspiration from seasonal ingredients, spices, colours and the juxtaposition of the sweet and the savoury. Spending her first eleven years in Dakar, Senegal, she is a graduate of New York’s own Park West High School where she studied under CCAP and ultimately garnered a scholarship to the celebrated French Culinary Institute. … Continue reading CHOCOLATE CONGO BAR BROWNIE RECIPE