It's easy to forget that in a past life Smalls was also a Grammy- and Tony Award-winning opera singer. You’ve written books before about African American food and the African diaspora, but this ...

We had to talk about the plantain frittata. Nina Oduro wouldn’t let me leave our video call before sharing what she loved about the dish. The flavor profile, Oduro told me, is typical in West Africa, ...

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 ...

THE CULMINATION OF A DREAM LONG IN THE MAKING. FOR SOME, THIS IS JUST A KITCHEN. BUT FOR ONE, LOCAL BUSINESS OWNER, IT’S HER SLICE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. CHARLIE VETTINER PARK, WHO GOES BY CLARISSA, ...

Spicy and sour is a seductively simply combination that couldn't be more alien to what we think of as typical American food. Its dominance in the food at Amawele's South African Kitchen is explained ...