What’s FUFU you ask?! ….[BECOME ONE OF MYT PATREON SUPPORTERS TO LEARN MORE!👇🏽]
Happy National Fufu Day! 🌍
That’s right — for intel on the fascinating food story of fufu (including the foundational role it played in the development of American cookery — even though early enslaved Africans were “forbidden” from making and eating it — and on the growing interest in fufu by Americans of all hues today …) READ THAT AND THEN SOME IN THE PATREON VERSION OF THIS POST .For the folks already supporting me in that community, see you there❣️…
📸 Chefs featured in pic carousel above 👆🏾:
• Bronx-born Chef Eric Adjepong (Ghanaian heritage), who (to my knowledge) became the first professional chef to serve fufu on a televised cooking competition — in Season 16 of Bravo’s Top Chef
• British-Ghanaian Chef and Author Zoe Adjonyoh
• Chef Kwame Onwuachi (American nationality with Nigerian, Jamaican, Louisianan, and West Indian heritage)
• Award-winning Home Cook, Adjo Honsou of St. Louis, Missouri (originally from Togo, West Africa), winner of Season 3 of The Great American Recipe on PBS
• And as always: Yours truly / Me / “TFG” — on the scene(s)!