For Ndeye “Queen” Ndir, July 21 marked a lot of firsts. Not only was it the day she opened her first restaurant, Ndindy African Cuisine, at 2600 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., but it was also the first ...

Pierre Thiam moved from Dakar to New York City to go to college. For the Senegalese national, the city was supposed to be a stopping point on his way to study physics and chemistry at a small school ...

Tiebu djeun, a sort of West African paella revered as the national dish of Senegal Credit: Danielle A. Scruggs There are a lot of secrets in the kitchen at Gorée Cuisine, a new Senegalese restaurant ...

The people of Senegal are famous for their generosity. The Wolof word (Wolof is the language most widely spoken in Senegal) is “teranga,” meaning “hospitality,” and teranga is most often expressed by ...

Shop signs written in both English and French, men and women dressed in traditional boubou garments, chefs cooking up fish stew while chatting with customers in Wolof—one is reminded of Dakar, the ...

In Senegal, men don’t cook. We sit entombed, couch-dazed, singly and in clusters, pondering the gnawing, fathomless depths of our stomachs, while women chop and ladle and flash-fry in wreaths of steam ...

It’s 11:30 on a Friday morning, and Serigne Mbaye lets out a yawn. “Yes, this is a lot of hours and a lot of work, but it’s what we live for,” says the 28-year-old chef. After years running Dakar NOLA ...

Karelle Vignon-Vullierme presents a plate with self-made pastry in her kitchen in Dakar on March 27. Photo: AFP As a girl, Karelle Vignon-Vullierme loved eating the Beninese dishes her mother cooked ...

The Turkish Embassy in Senegal has held various events as part of the newly launched Turkish Cuisine Week to promote the delicacies and food served in traditional Turkish cuisine. The culinary ...

Towards a Partnership between Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Convention of Young Reporters ...