HeyJaredNo Plantains Left Behind
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Everything you need to know about Ghanaian cooking in 4 points (opens the original)
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This is week one of my course all about Ghanaian food. This week, the goal was to establish a foundation on Ghanaian food, looking at the key factors that define what people grow and eat. This is probably the most dense lesson in this course as there is a lot of reading and resources to review, but here are the most important takeaways from this week’s lesson.<div
Do not let academia stop you from living your dreams (opens the original)
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I started this cookbook journey 3 years into my Ph.D, during a very challenging time in the program. Despite the challenges, my PhD fundamentally changed how I explored Ghanaian cooking. In some ways it was a reprieve from the difficulty that is academia, in other ways, it provided the perfect avenue to apply all the positive aspects of my training into a subject I had immense passion for.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j-wP!,f_auto,q_au
Food that brings cultures together, just like sports (opens the original)
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Food, like football/soccer, can bring people from all walks of life together. In the spirit of sports, I took on the challenge to make fusion recipes bringing together Ghanaian flavours with Panamanian, Croatian and English ingredients/flavours. These were the opponents Ghana faced in the group stages of the World Cup. Before I get into the recipes, cookbook pre order bonus is now available to download. To claim 10 bonus recipes, submit a proof of payment by filling this form and receive the ext
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