/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17005869]

So Africa is pretty damn colossal, but I've never heard of any African cuisine apart from Ethiopian. Any good food from there?

[Anonymous No.17005875]

>>17005869
Ethiopian is just bad middle eastern food which itself is just bad greek/eastern european food

[Anonymous No.17005878]

>>17005869
North African food is good, Mediterranean-Middle Eastern fusion.

[Anonymous No.17005882]

>>17005869
You don't know food until you've had some good sub-saharan Leg of Sam, maybe some good N'dego chops in mud sauce

[Anonymous No.17005885]

Morrocan is my favorite African cuisine. It's got a lot of mediterranean and middle eastern influence while still having alot of really sick culinary techniques, traditions, and ingredients that are inherently morrocan. Slept on cuisine, I find alot of inspiration from it when I'm cooking.

[Anonymous No.17006082]

[Anonymous No.17006641]

>>17005869
Jollof Rice

[Anonymous No.17006856]

>>17005869
Absolutely. Like another anon said, North African cuisine is fantastic. Also personally into Ghanian food. Most doesn’t look appealing, but I don’t care that much on that front because it’s fantastic. And fufu-esque things are great, if a little hard to get used to. There’s a lot of different fufu sort of things, one of the regions has a really nice corn one.

[Anonymous No.17006924]

>>17005869
I've only been to East Africa but I had some interesting dishes there:

1. Ethiopian food has already been mentioned. One thing I particularly liked is the beyaynatu, which is a mixture of about 4 vegetarian curries and 3 cooked vegetable dishes, all served on the flat pancake they call an injera. They seem to take Christianity really seriously there, so about 1/3 of the year is strictly vegetarian days for them
2. In fact Ethiopians seem incapable of eating any dish without the sour pancake. Even when they eat spaghetti in tomato sauce, it has to be served on the sour pancake which they use to scoop up pieces of spaghetti.
3. Kenyan biryani. Shares a name with the Indian dish but is actually quite different. Basically pilau rice served with a rich, spiced tomato sauce with some variant of fish/chicken/meat. In my opinion it's even better than Indian biryani
4. Chapati with beans, again the chapatis are quite different from the Indian ones. Not sure why this tasted so good but it did
5. "Beef stew with all foods", weird name but that's what they called it in Uganda. Basically beef stew served with a variety of side dishes (cornmeal porridge, boiled bananas, sweet potatoes, tapioca) all on one plate.

Of course, most of the time they didn't eat this. Their staple dishes were some variation on beef stew/beans with rice/corn porridge and boiled green leaves, which made up about 90% of their meals.

[Anonymous No.17006982]

>>17005869
Africans cant even feed themselves let alone scrounge together enough food to cook with

Pretty pathetic considering they had thousands of years to develop before anyone else even started

[Anonymous No.17007000]

>>17006982
>Africans cant even feed themselves let alone scrounge together enough food to cook with

African rice, yams, millet, sorghum, okra, cowpeas, watermelon, groundnuts, tiger nuts were all domesticated in sub-Saharan Africa.

[Anonymous No.17007011]

>>17007000
So basically a load of shit I never eat, with the exception of watermelon

[Anonymous No.17007044]

>>17007011
All of the above except groundnuts and African rice are eaten outside of sub-Saharan Africa.

[Anonymous No.17007050]

>>17007000
Great, then they can start sending back all the food and money we gave them

[Anonymous No.17007077]

>>17005869
Senegal: burned meat with raw onions blasted with lemon and mustard
>>17005875
Ethiopian food is good you tastelet. East african food >>>> west african food

[Anonymous No.17007079]

>>17007044
Are you a negro or just a soyboy? Why the obsession with defending Africa?

[Anonymous No.17007097]

>>17007079
Yes, I'm black

[Anonymous No.17007119]

>>17007097
Feel free to go back to Africa if its such a fucking paradise

You wont lmao

[Anonymous No.17007150]

>>17007077
>Ethiopian food is good you tastelet. East african food >>>> west african food
I'm sure it's great compared to most other african nations, doesn't change what I said one bit.

[Anonymous No.17007160]

>>17007000
>African rice, yams, millet, sorghum, okra, cowpeas, watermelon, groundnuts, tiger nuts were all domesticated in sub-Saharan Africa.
sure, by europeans not natives

[Anonymous No.17007251]

>>17005875
>eastern european food
lol
lmao

[Anonymous No.17007455]

>>17007251
I consider Georgia/Kazakhstan/Azerbaijan/Turkey area to be eastern europe

[Anonymous No.17007488]

>>17007050

[Anonymous No.17008431]

>>17005869
Ugandan food is aight

[Anonymous No.17008500]

>>17006924
Lmao never thought the day would come where someone on 4chan talked about chapati
Mandazis go hard too
Kenyan samosas are the best in the world (Sudanese are a close second)
t. Kenyan anon

[Anonymous No.17008510]

>North America is pretty damn colossal, but I've never heard of any Indian cuisine. Why is that?

[Anonymous No.17008512]

>>17008500
As a Kenyan what do you think about some African-American and white vegans claiming that African people didn’t eat meat until the white man came along and perverted their natural vegan ways?

[Anonymous No.17008534]

>>17008512
White vegans are fucking retarded. Day of the drought, and I'm eating them first.

[Anonymous No.17008543]

>>17008534
They are retarded but actually African American vegans came up with this nonsense and a lot of black people believe it.

[Anonymous No.17008566]

>>17008543
99% of African Americans know nothing about Africa. They think we dress like extras in Wakanda. I doubt they could find Nairobi on a map.
The divide between the cultures is indelible.

[Anonymous No.17008569]

>>17006924
>>17008500
Aren't the biryani and samosas you're talking about Somali? They live in the north eastern region. Or do Kenyans have there own versions of the two?

[Anonymous No.17009151]

>>17008569
I believe they're considered part of Swahili cuisine, so essentially a mixture of Indian and Arab influences.

[Anonymous No.17009159]

Most of sub saharan Africa is extremely poor. In those regions, the food is mostly starches with affordable sauces, such as cornstarch pudding (has many names, such as posho), and bean sauce, or peanut sauce. It's not like in the west where every dish can have tons of meat, and we think nothing of it. They can't afford it. They are literally just trying to get by. So Ugandan food is mostly quite bland, but I enjoy it. My wife is Ugandan. Food on Zanzibar, on the other hand, had tons of breadth and was rich in taste. Obviously because they have more international impulses both in history and today, and a ton of spices and tradition of using them. South Africa has a rich barbeque culture, brought in with the whites. And some of the best fishing and hunting you can find. All manner of animals to cook...They mostly don't though. You have to go to some specialty store to find those meats, but as a tourist, you should.

[Anonymous No.17009174]

>>17009159
>South Africa has a rich barbeque culture, brought in with the whites.
I’m pretty sure the Khoisan and various Bantu tribes in South Africa were cattle herders.

[Anonymous No.17009182]

marmite is pretty big in south africa

[Anonymous No.17009441]

>>17008566
>99% of African Americans know nothing about Africa
It really is embarrassing, especially the desperate drive to claim Egypt while they have never heard of Mali or Ghana or any of the empires they might actually have anything to do with

[Anonymous No.17009449]

>>17009441
You have African Americans wanting to be attached to Africa, but the kids of African parents in america try to be black.

[Anonymous No.17009566]

>>17008566
>they think we dress like extras in Wakanda.
Help me out here. I live in harlem, which if you're not familiar, is basically synonymous with "black people area". There are a lot of african immigrants here too. Black americans "think" you dress that way because you do, at least from our perspective (speaking as american not black, which I'm not, but I completely understand where they might get that impression).

There are other tells (like how they walk or even how they hold themselves standing still), but the clothes really stand out. I'm honestly perplexed by what you think the stereotype should be. Do you want us to imagine people in africa as dressing like extras from The Jetsons? Mad Men? Apocalypse Now? Barry Lyndon? Mallrats?

What exactly is the self-image that you so desperately want to project to the world?

[Anonymous No.17009588]

>>17009566
I think what hes telling you is stop larping like you have some deep connection with african culture, because you dont.

[Anonymous No.17009592]

>>17009588
How am I larping like I have a deep connection with african culture? Is it my nike shoes? It's my nike shoes isn't it, colin kapernick was canceled I know. Sorry I'll burn them and get new balance and a tiki torch, massa.

[Anonymous No.17009593]

>>17009592
Good, now its time for the buck breaking.

[Anonymous No.17009599]

Jollof

[Anonymous No.17009609]

>>17009566
Not sure what kind of africans you've been seeing but in my experience, almost all of them dress in western clothing, both in the west and in africa. The guy in your photo is a devout muslim which is basically the only exception (along with devout ethiopian christians).

[Anonymous No.17009614]

>>17009609
This. I don't dress in native (read: traditional clothing) outside of weddings, funerals, and parties.

[Anonymous No.17009623]

>>17009609
The kind from africa?
>>17009614
Well there must be a lot of funerals then because I see it all the time

[Anonymous No.17009695]

>>17009623
This is obviously a church photo

[Anonymous No.17009711]

>>17009695
You didn't say church before. You said weddings, funerals, and parties. What else did you leave out? Going to the bodega? Taking the train? Going out for an afternoon stroll? Hmm, maybe it would be easier to name the situations where you run stealthmode in "western" clothes.

[Anonymous No.17009734]

>>17009711
Shut up you racist motherfucker, you're lucky you're behind a screen

[Anonymous No.17009748]

>>17009734
You have rumblr? I'll meet you at 155th and Bradhurst, then we'll see who's right about this

[Anonymous No.17009755]

>>17006856
>ghanaian food
ghana nigeria and gambia (west africa in general) has some great dishes, there are many restaurants in europe.
also north african cuisine is great, and the Horn too

[Anonymous No.17009765]

>>17009609
this, in europe you see africans in african garments only during celebration days or if they are devout muslims. the youngsters dress like footballers/trap artists.
the world is big, once I witnessed a dialogue between a chinese and an israeli and the chinese girl wasn't accepting that palestinians wore the same casual clothes as jews, she insisted that they all dress like bedouins kek

[Anonymous No.17009804]

Great foods arise from great cultures. Great cultures only arise once basic problems like agriculture and not starving are mostly solved. Only then can a society prosper and put real effort into non-survival activities like developing delicious recipes. Simply put, the people are so goddamn primitive, bushmeat and bugs are the rule, fruit and nuts if you can find it. This is "real" African cooking, they barely had simple tools and fire, let alone a well equipped kitchen. Open your fucking eyes and realize Africans do not measure up to the standards of other people.

[Anonymous No.17009820]

Lol did the jannies really delete my post for insulting africa?

I didnt even say nigger

What a bunch of pansy ass nigger lovers

[Anonymous No.17010791]

>>17006856
>one of the regions has a really nice corn one.
The region is East Africa. The 'corn fufu' is called Ugali. God-tier food by any metric. It's actually maize flour that is, for lack of a better description, baked in boiling water. Think cooking porridge, but is meant to come out with the firmness of malleable, plasticine sponge cake. It has a very delicate flavour that goes well with collard greens, spinach, avocado and any meat. Fufu has the consistency of mashed potatoes, so it's quite different from ugali.
Like this >>17006924 anon mentioned, Kenyan chapati is quite different from Indian chapati. I have been to both India and Kenya and I can confirm this. Kenyan chapati is cooked with generous amounts of oil, whereas Indian chapati is very economical when it comes to oil.
Biryani is also quite popular here. We grow great rice (Pishori-Basmati) so we have a lot to work with.
Nyama Choma is another delicacy. It's basically 'roast meat', without all the gay Southern 'BBQ' ingenuity. Roast meat + salt. Nothing more, nothing less. S-tier.
Pilau. Rice cooked in various herbs (garlic, ginger, masala, sometimes cinnamon and cloves). It's a Coastal dish. Very very good.
Lots of greens and cereal.
Pork isn't as popular here. I personally don't think it's anything special.
We eat a lot of fish. Especially Tilapia and omena (Lake Victoria sardines).
Chicken is a delicacy here, but beef is most widespread.
We traditionally don't use many spices here, especially the further from the Coast you are. Kenyan food just has a natural flavour. Almost everything is 'organic', so we eat plants and animals in their truest form. I can't say the same about India, though. The eggs tasted like water, the chicken didn't smell like anything, the tomatoes tasted like diluted lemons, etc. Now I get why people there are obsessed with spices.
Kenyan people nowadays are opening up to experimenting with spices so I think we will see a change in Kenyan cuisine in years to come.

[Anonymous No.17010795]

>>17007488
i will never forgive the french for what they did to him

[Anonymous No.17010797]

>>17008500
Fancy meeting you here fellow countryman.

[Anonymous No.17011866]

Bugs and mud
very sad lol

[Anonymous No.17012005]

>>17010795
Is that Thomas Sankara?

[Anonymous No.17013358]

>>17005869
south africa has some good dishes too

[Anonymous No.17013742]

>>17010791

Great post. You wouldn't have pics to share of food you cooked yourself or in general of the dishes you mentioned?

[Anonymous No.17013761]

>>17013742
4chan only allows one picture per post. He'd have to make several posts to show what he's talking about. Just google the foods fren.

[Anonymous No.17014807]

>>17010791
The African biome is not meant to eat meat. That’s a practice the white man brought as a tool of psychological warfare. Eating of flesh prevents melanated people of the sun from being living electric cell organisms

[Anonymous No.17014851]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVFdQzbSb3Q
https://youtu.be/EKHiFLyJzrM?t=83
https://youtu.be/4PwhjSDcStQ?t=49

>angolan cuisine

[Anonymous No.17014877]

Biltong from South Africa, Clippers when with cokes, otherwise africa is a wasteland. Pretending it's not is like pretendoland bullshit, just look into equitorial guinnia, the shit that the "normal" channals bbc want to filter.

[Anonymous No.17014920]

>>17014877
>just look into equitorial guinnia