Sweet-and-Sour Braised Lamb with Tamarind
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If there are cuisines of which we are woefully uncultivated, they are surely African ones.
Somali chef Hawa Hassan aims to open our eyes — and palates — wide with her new cookbook, “In Bibi’s Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean” (Ten Speed Press), written with best-selling cookbook author Julia Turshen.
Hassan has gathered stories along with 75 recipes from bibis (grandmothers) from eight African nations: South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoros, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, and Eritrea.
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You can’t help but be touched by the personal stories and soulful recipes, which might otherwise go unrecorded and be lost for all time.
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