Our first stop in North Africa finds us in Libya, where Arabic, Berber and Mediterranean traditions fuse. To explore the Libyan kitchen, we make vegan M’battan: a delicious snack of battered, deep fried potato wedges stuffed with spiced soy mince. Read on to learn a bit about Libyan cuisine or […]
Africa
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For our virtual visit to Senegal, we cook a vegan thieboudienne or ceebu jën. This flavourful rice dish dish is the Senegal version of jollof rice, the immensely popular dish eaten in different versions across most of West Africa. Read on to learn a bit more about Senegalese cooking or […]
This week, we make our first stop in Southern Africa as we visit South Africa. We cook a South African vegan dish which is a real classic comfort food: samp and beans (isistambu in Zulu and umngqusho in Xhosa). Rich and creamy and seasoned with fried onion and curry powder, […]
This week on our vegan world tour, we return to West Africa and cook a Ghanaian vegan recipe for Red Red. Read on to learn a bit about Ghana's cuisine or jump straight to the recipe
This week, we’re staying in East Africa as we visit Somalia on the Horn of Africa. Somali cuisine is largely influenced by Swahili peoples and historical, cultural exchanges with India and the Arabic peninsula. More recently, Somalia was governed by Italy (~1880-1940 [1]) and pasta became a popular food [2]–[5]. […]
Lasary is a collective name for condiments or side dishes in Madagascar. This one is based on Lemurbaby’s recipe [1] and is a great condiment to the kabaro au curry described in the main Madagascar post. Other lasary are more similar to traditional salads, e.g. lasary voatabia (tomato) [2] or […]
Madagascar, a large island country of the eastern coast of Africa, is maybe most famous for peculiar wildlife with lemurs and giant spiky forests [1]. This uniqueness stems from the island’s relative isolation – there has been very little migration of plants and animals from mainland Africa. Mirroring the low […]
Today we visit The Gambia on the western coast of Africa, a small country closely contouring The Gamber River. The close connection to water influences the cuisine where fish is a major food source. Typical plant-based ingredients include groundnuts (peanuts), rice, okra, palm oil, couscous, cassava, fonio and leafy greens […]