Feature'Home-made!' Our food journalist explores your home kitchens. In Binta Wade's Boulogne-Billancourt home, he learns how to make tasty Senegalese specialties. When we entered 37-year-old Binta ...

Peanut sauce is popular around the world. You’ve probably dipped Thai- or Vietnamese-style grilled meats into it, or drizzled it over a plate of Indonesian gado-gado. In West Africa, though, peanut ...

Everything we cook has a story behind it: who made it for us, how we learned to cook it. When it comes to comfort food, the story is just as important as the taste of the dish itself. The memories and ...

Outside this place, fall is hanging on by its fingertips. Piles of dead leaves lie in the gutters, choked with cold rainwater. Outside this place, the sky is ashy and the mercury is falling. But I am ...

Participants in an OldWays Taste of African Heritage class in eastern New Orleans sample the dishes. (Ted Jackson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Oldways Senegalese Sweet Potato Peanut Stew (Mafe) ...

One bite of Le Teranga’s mafe and I feel a gentle throb of chile heat, a back note that kicks in slowly. Fiery habaneros judiciously season this velvety, peanut-sauced stew, slicing through its ...

Traditionally, West African mafé contains meat or fish, but in this version root vegetables stew in the peanutty sauce. Author of the article: You can save this article by registering for free here.

Writer Afi-Odelia Scruggs once identified mafe, the hearty West African peanut butter stew, with a personal narrative of her life with Africans.... Everything we cook has a story behind it: who made ...