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

[edenfalling]

That strikes me as a generous interpretation, given that the recipe specifically mentions "1-2 cups lard or vegetable oil" in the ingredient list, and the instructions again say "Add lard or oil to a cast-iron skillet."

[conuly]

Well, I may've only glanced at the headline here. I didn't want my faith in humanity to suffer too too much.

[mme_hardy]

I deeply envy your retaining some.