Join Maryam Hampton as she partners with AncestryDNA to explore her West African heritage through delicious traditional ...

Nearly four in five people in Africa prepare their meals over open fires or traditional stoves, utilizing wood, charcoal and other polluting fuels, but moving towards clean cooking is hard when ...

Back in 2020, esteemed chef and James Beard-winning writer and cookbook author Alexander Smalls was deep in research about the foundations of African cooking and cuisine in preparation for an expo in ...

Alexander Smalls grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina — in Gullah Geechee country off the state’s coast — where inhabitants may be the closest descendants, culturally, to the African continent in ...

A sleepy intersection opposite a dilapidated barn in rural Frederick is an unlikely place to find noteworthy West African cooking. But that’s exactly where you’ll discover Motherland Kitchen. Step ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Among the biologists, geneticists and historians who use food as a lens to study the African diaspora, rice is a particularly deep rabbit hole. So much remains unknown about how ...

Cooking is part of her culture. Adjo Honsou knew her favorite recipe, Oxtail in Palm Nut Stew, was a winner. Now, the rest of the world knows it, too, because it was the dish that earned Honsou the ...

In Harare, Zimbabwe, a young athlete was once beginning to discover his passion for food, the stories they told, and the rich culture it represented. Lebo Ngwenya has shared deeply ingrained memories ...

“By investing in the rollout of clean cooking solutions to millions of households, the Bank is also contributing to women’s empowerment, employment creation and reduced deforestation associated with ...

The African Development Bank, the continent’s biggest multilateral lender, will allocate $2 billion to promote clean cooking in Africa over the next decade. The pledge amounts to 20% of the lender’s ...

A team of US-based scientists has conducted a study to investigate whether providing fruits and vegetables along with cooking instructions can improve kidney health among African-American adults with ...