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'Knitting Flavours' Substack is a space for me to talk about about my food journey from growing up in Nigeria and the lessons I have learnt through discovering new places and flavours.
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Back to the Drawing Board with my Cookbooks (opens the original)
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It has been exactly two months since my last post titled ‘When the World Stopped’ and honestly whenever I think about writing a post or about my readers wondering why I am missing in action, I find the motivation to write or explain myself completely lacking.Initially I had the perfect excuse; we were planning my mum’s funeral and there was a lot going on, later the excuse morphed to travelling for the funeral and then afterwards it became about making decisions around headstone and other final
When the World Stopped (opens the original)
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On Thursday 9th of July at about 11.15am, I got the call that would pause my world, turn it upside down and throw me a curveball all in the space of 30 seconds. I put my mobile phone to my left ear whilst I continued to listen to another call via my headset.The message delivered in my native Yoruba language was short, direct and unmistakably simple – mummy has gone quiet. It was my younger sister breaking the news that my mum had passed on quietly and without any drama. I felt a calm that could
Ikokore (opens the original)
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Ikokore is one of those dishes one hears about all the time; one that I believe should only be tried for the first time when authentically made by local custodians of the recipe. Some dishes take their time finding you and this is definitely one of them; I had friends and went to university with people who grew up with the dish but I only ever had conversations about it and imagined what it looked and tasted like. When my sister-in-law asked if I would like to eat Ikokore, I replied that I had h
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