Alexander Smalls and Nina Oduro, "The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa" (Phaidon Press, 2024)

New Books in African American Studies · Feb 28, 2025 · 24m

The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa (Phaidon Press, 2024) is an elegant collection of 120 home cooking recipes from Africa’s most​ exciting culinary voices today. Extensively researched and thoughtfully​ curated by James Beard Award winning chef, author, and restaurateur​ Alexander Smalls in collaboration with Dine Diaspora CEO Nina Oduro,​ this bold volume celebrates Africa’s extraordinary gastronomic past and​ present across a breadth of dishes.​ Composed of 55 countries with more than 1.4 billion people, and​ 2,000-plus languages spoken…