Fonio, sorghum, teff… Do you know that Africa has extra indigenous grains than some other continent?
This info might come as a shock, buried as it’s underneath the tales we’re maybe extra used to listening to concerning the continent’s struggles with malnourishment and meals insecurity.
However in reality, Africa is a cornucopia filled with nutritious, versatile and, frankly, scrumptious indigenous meals – ones that would every play an important function in fostering extra resilient meals methods on the continent.
In an more and more fractured world, the place provide shocks and occasions just like the struggle in Ukraine disrupt wheat imports and threaten the sleek functioning of our world meals system, these native treasures are key for communities to thrive.
That’s exactly the subject of Euronews’ model new podcast, launching 28 October.
Uncover “The Star Ingredient”, a documentary cooking present hosted by Euronews journalist, Tokunbo Salako, that can take you on a culinary tour throughout Africa and Europe.
There we’ll meet the cooks and native communities on a mission to recuperate and revive these indigenous components.
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A brand new culinary podcast
Our new present will take you inside the house of famend chef, Pierre Thiam, to cook dinner with fonio, the ‘West African miracle grain’.
From there, we are going to navigate the teeming bustle of a Lagos meals market with Nigeria’s budding culinary star, chef Moyo Odunfa. She’ll be looking for the very best bambara groundnuts and speaking up her mission to place Nigerian meals on the haute delicacies map.
And that’s not all! Alongside the best way we are going to journey to rural Burundi, to share a meal with the communities that venerate sorghum, a nutrient dense, gluten-free grain that would simply rival quinoa.
We’ll comply with chef Ska Moteane as she journeys by Lesotho, persevering with her life’s work sourcing and recording her nation’s conventional recipes which might be in peril of being misplaced.
Taking a detour to Europe, we’ll trek by the forests of Italy with chef Eleonora Matarrese, to discover how foraging can play its half in additional resilient meals methods.
These are simply among the personalities and foodies that can accompany you as we take an in depth and mouth-watering have a look at meals; the crimson thread connecting not solely our well being and survival, however connecting us additionally to our tradition, our habits, and our id.
And if that’s not sufficient? Every episode will arm you with a novel recipe that includes one in every of our chosen star components, so you may be part of within the enjoyable, pull out the pots and pans, and whip up a show-stopper meal whenever you’re executed listening.
Subscribe to The Star Ingredient in your favorite podcast app or discover it on euronews.com or africanews.com from October 28.
This challenge was funded by the European Journalism Centre, by the Options Journalism Accelerator. This fund is supported by the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis.
