Renowned Senegalese chef Pierre Thiam has been a fixture on the New York and global food scene for years as executive chef at Nok by Alara in Lagos, chef at the Pullman Hotel in Dakar and owner of ...

Toni Tipton-Martin opens her cookbook “Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking” (Clarkson Potter) with a resounding declaration of her intentions: “Our cooking, our cooks, ...

The past decade has seen an incredible rise in cookbooks that showcase the diversity of African cooking. Recent cookbooks have focused on recreating classic recipes in ways that are both realistic for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cookbooks can provide more than collections of recipes. Many offer invitations into worlds completely unlike our own or chances to ...

Mock crayfish and a history lesson. You’ll get a little of both in a forthcoming South African Jewish cookbook, being billed not only as a great recipe source, but also as a social history of South ...

His mother died in a tuberculosis epidemic that swept his native Ethiopia when he was 3 years old. He was adopted by a Swedish family and raised as Marcus Samuelsson, an idyllic childhood, he has said ...

PITTSBURGH — Alexander Smalls was a professional opera singer before he reinvented himself as a chef and restaurateur. So it’s no surprise he brings an artist’s eye to the recipes he created for his ...