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.
Unfortunately, it was ten years ago, and I no longer remember. I just remember complaining when I got back, and my friend who had done a study abroad stint at the U of Edinburgh (where I spent most of my time) was like, "Yeah, they do that there," and then told me stories of all the other things she'd seen and/or consumed in her time.
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Date: 2019-12-21 08:49 pm (UTC)