What? How? Who?

[mme_hardy]

Deep-frying foods in vegetable oil seems like a modern American craze, but it was an ancient cooking tradition in West Africa, and one that we have inherited from enslaved people.

Akara sounds pretty tasty, but that's a bizarre sentence up there.

Comments

[malkingrey]

I actually don't know. My own relationship with deep frying is that, as a known and gazetted klutz, it's something I'm better off letting experts do for me.