Learn more about the food of Africa

For those of you who speak Swedish or Danish, Swedish television (SVT) is now showing a Danish series about the new cuisine in Africa. The idea that runs through the show is that new African chefs are inventing new dishes, but still with the roots in the traditions of the continent. The host are sometimes speaking English with the chefs.

If you want to learn more about African dishes and be inspired, read here and here.

There are some noteworthy contributions from the African continent to food that is consumed throughout the world. One such example is Edmond Albius, an African slave who managed to find an effective way to poolinate the vanilla in the 19th century. This helped to launch the vanilla industry into a much bigger industry. Edmond Albius was born on Réunion and another African island, Madagascar, is today the biggest producer of vanilla.