Ivy Newton-Gamble's Blog: Everyday African Food, page 9

Sudanese Food

Green Plantain Porridge

Plantains are one staple food of Africa sometimes eaten with fish or meat. Plantains tend to be firmer and lower in sugar content than dessert bananas. Bananas are most often eaten raw, while plantains usually require cooking or other processing, and are used either when green or under-ripe (and therefore starchy) or overripe (and therefore sweet). Plantains are a staple food in the tropical regions of the world, treated in much the same way as potatoes and with a similar neutral flavour and ...

Ethiopian Coffee Beans

The African country, Ethiopia manufactures the for the most part the most distinctive and captivating coffees on the plant.  Three foremost regions where Ethiopian coffee beans originate are Harrar, Ghimbi, and Sidamo also known as Yirgacheffe. Ethiopian Yirgacheffee coffee may also be labeled as Sidamo, which is the district where it is produced. The Ethiopian Yirgacheffee coffee bean is the most favored coffee grown in southern Ethiopia and is serene and aromatic. Ethiopian Harrar coffee...

Senegal: Fille en Cuisine (Girl in the Kitchen)

Madagascar Rice Fields

Beatrice Page, Spelling Bee Star

[image error]Beatrice Page, a student of the Nancy B. Doe Elementary School, Bong Mines, Bong County, Liberia, is a participant in USAID's accelerated learning program which allows students who missed out on schooling due to the collapse of the system to complete six grades in three years. She entered the limelight when she participated in the 2009 spelling bee organized by the American Embassy in Monrovia. Page won a three–round contest in her school, a five-round contest in Gbarnga, the County seat...

America's future is linked with Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa faces some of the most severe development challenges in the world. Yet there is room for hope on a number of fronts. Within many countries, local communities are taking more responsibility for their children's education and the preservation of their environment. Communities are also demanding a greater voice in how they are governed and how resources are used, all signs of better, more democratic governance on the continent. Expanded programs to fight HIV/AIDS and other...

Coffee Growers Link to New Markets

[image error]Growing up on a coffee plantation, Asnakech Thomas is proud that her family comes from a coffee-rich region in Ethiopia's Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region. She is also proud that, in February 2007, her coffee was ranked highest in a pre-selection process for Ethiopia's first-ever private coffee auction. This enabled her to sell the coffee for $2 per pound, a 50 percent increase from before the auction.

Asnakech is participating in a USAID program focused on improving...

Cuisine Sénégalaise

Senegal: Fille en Cuisine (Girl in the Kitchen)