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Get ready for the biggest African and Caribbean food tasting festival!
Some of London’s best African and Caribbean chefs and cooks are coming together to take part in the first annual African and Caribbean food tasting event this summer. The free festival will play host to over 14 national cuisines from around Africa and the Caribbean including Jamaica, Nigeria, Ghana and Barbados.
Supporting an African nation in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil here is our country, restaurant and bar guide. Here we are also talking about national dishes, cooking and drinking if you are having a party at home whilst watching the football games. Tweet #foodball. So which African Nations are going to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil? Five African nations have qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil they are listed:
Lets face it cooking is sexy and the ladies in the 2013 final have the wow factor.
This year's finalists of the great BBC's Great British Bake Off are attractive, passionate and sexy women, well two of them are very much so.
Ellen Gibson Wilson first encountered African food when she married a British man who had lived in Western Africa. "A West African Cook Book: Good Food From Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone" is an excellent cookbook, one of the best African cookbooks ever. By focusing on these four countries Ms. Wilson has produced a wonderful book, probably better than if she had tried to cover the entire continent (as many African cookbooks try to do).
Pulling into the main Sierra Leone Port in Freetown a cargo ship with the name China Shipping. It's March 2013 and goods are arriving on mass. We know where is came from, there is no doubt that the owner wants us to know who they are and they have no secrets. What is in the hold of this massive ship from China? How many of these ships have arrived in the West African country this past year?
Obama addressed Ghana's parliament on his July 2009 trip to West Africa. Obama spend less than a day in the capital. The White House says this trip will focus on strengthening economic growth, democratic institutions, and African leadership. Well what about African food? Will Obama be trying the national dish in Senegal's capital Dakar?
West Africans living in New York. Guineans, Malians, Ghanaians, Nigerians, and Ivory Coasters being the main groups. Gradually the eating establishments of these people have grown.
Cooking from this restaurants includes okra and black-eyed-pea-based dishes. Senegalese cheb (a national dish of fish and vegetables over flavored rice), mafe (peanut sauce with lamb or chicken), and yassa (fish or chicken with a mustard-onion relish).
Today seven of the ten fastest growing economies today lie in Africa. In the region of West Africa, Ghana is on course to be the world's eighth fastest-growing economy between 2011 and 2015, while Nigeria (with expected growth of 7 per cent this year) is set to become one of the world's largest by the end of this decade.
It is surrounded by six countries in the north is Mali, to the south is Ghana which is on the coast of West Africa, north east is Niger. Burkina Faso, once known as Upper Volta, and as the longtime kingdom of the Mossi people. French forces colonized this part of West Africa in 1896. In 1958, the region achieved self-governance, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta, and by 1960 had gained complete independence from France. Burkina Faso means "the country of honorable people". Its capital is Ouagadougou.