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.
Tracking down the author by name, she's actually a fairly high-powered scholar -- doctorate in history from Johns Hopkins, affiliated with Amherst College, an associate director of the Folger Shakespeare library . . . so she really ought to have known how to better phrase things.
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Date: 2019-12-21 03:17 pm (UTC)