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.

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[legionseagle]

I'm sorry to say that when we took big style in the UK to fish and chips (which was an idea we nicked from the Jewish community of the East End) what they were using oop North was often neats-foot oil, which you got as a side-product of tripe dressing.