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An acclaimed chef and food writer celebrates the many cuisines found in Lagos, Nigeria s biggest city, with 75 recipes that mirror her own powerful journey of self-discovery.
The city of Lagos, Nigeria, is a key part of a larger conversation about West African cuisine and its influences throughout the world. This cookbook consists of 75 recipes that are all served in recipe developer and food stylist Yewande Komolafe s fast-paced, ever-changing home city of Lagos. These recipes reflect the regional cooking of the country and reveal two complementary qualities of Nigerian cuisine its singularity and accessibility. These are recipes that are considered national dishes, classics ones that can be cooked anywhere. Along the way, through informative essays that place ingredients in historical context, Yewande explains how in a country where dozens of ethnic groups interact, a cuisine has developed that transcends tribal boundaries.