African Foodways

What is recorded

• Africa is not a cuisine. The regional groupings here are analytical containers; the cuisines inside them are the actual traditions. documented

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• originates from Acarajé documented

  Directly cognate with West African akara, and Yoruba in origin.

• originates from British African Food Culture documented
• related to African Foodways in Louisiana documented
• related to Afro-Peruvian Foodways documented
• related to Afro-Uruguayan Foodways documented

  Montevideo was a major slave port for the region; candombe is on the UNESCO list.

• related to Belgian Colonial Food History documented

  The Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo. ⚠ Congolese foodways are Congolese, not Belgian.

• related to Brazilian Cuisine documented

  Roughly 4.8 million enslaved Africans were carried to Brazil, and West and Central African ingredients and technique are foundational to its food.

• related to Candomblé Foodways documented

  Yoruba, Fon and Bantu religious and culinary inheritance.

• related to Cardiff, Swansea and the Coast documented

  Butetown held one of Britain’s oldest Somali and West African communities.

• related to Immigrant Foodways in New England documented

  Cape Verdeans, the earliest substantial African immigrant community in the United States, arriving via the whaling fleet, with cachupa.

• related to Matongé and Congolese-Belgian Foodways documented
• related to Yungas and Chaco Foodways documented

  The Afro-Bolivian communities of the Yungas descend from people enslaved and taken to the Potosí mines.

Regional cuisines

Dishes

Recipes

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