Amy Winehouse hooked on Caribbean food
(Source: Ians - Blog Taragana )
LONDON - Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has liked Caribbean cuisine so much that she is refusing to return to her home in London unless she can bring back a chef from St. Lucia.
The troubled singer, who is living on the island, has [...]
Levi Roots to star in his own cooking show
Source: The Voice, May 18-24, 2009
Reggae Reggae Sauce founder Levi Roots is set to present his own BBC cook show. The show entitled Caribbean Foods Made Easy has already been commissioned for BBC 2 and will feature traditional recipes Levi learnt as a child and the latest [...]
London’s best African restaurants
By James Knight, London Lite 09.01.08
SOUTH AFRICAN
Bbar
43 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, 020 7958 7000. Tube: Victoria
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With its dark wood décor, ceiling fans and luscious wildlife portraits, at Bbar you feel as though Ernest Hemingway could walk up to the giant ceramic cheetah behind [...]
An African Restaurant & Bar Open daily from 12noon to 2.3am weekdays and 3.30am weekends
Friday 29th May, Come celebrate with us as we send off one of our treasured customers LEAH to naija with DJ HOMEBOY creating his music sensation.
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Saturday 30th May, Bigsams Entertainment Presents Boogie nites with assorted flavor.
Sunday 31st [...]
FABULOUS VIP FRIDAY @ D’ECLIPSE
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Ladies free b4 12midnite
Dress code: NO TRAINERS, NO HOODS, NO HATS
A night with a cool mixture of top soundZ
Music Policy: Hip Hop, Pop, RnB, Afro Jamz, Bashment, Funky House, Old Skool.
Cassava, manioc or yuca: a family of coarse roots that are boiled and pounded to make bread and various other farinaceous dishes. There are bitter and sweet varieties (note that the bitter variety is poisonous until cooked).
Source: Time Out 2008 | Eating & Drinking
London’s best African restaurants
By James Knight, London Lite 09.01.08
WEST AFRICAN
African Kitchen Gallery
102 Drummond Street, Camden, 020 7383 0918. Tube: Euston
In a tiny café, this is less spicy West African street food, more ” bourgeois cooking”, in the words of the proprietor, based on the recipes of his grandma. The moyin moyin [...]
Africana restaurant review
Source: Andrea’s Easy Vegan Cooking
In the distant past, we’ve been members of two different vegetarian dinner groups. The first one was a macrobiotic group, and we met once a month for a potluck, usually at our house. It was a lot of fun and the food was always wonderfully delicious and healthy. [...]
Modern Zanzibar Cuisine
By Benn Haidari
With his Comoran ancestry and culinary background in the Aland Islands, Finland, Sweden and Paris, chef Benn Haidari is excellently placed to tell the world about the exotic modern cookery now coming from the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, off Tanzania’s Sawahil coast. Here you’ll find starters, main dishes, seafood and [...]
