Could Yaji be the Next Chipotle?
A recent article in the New Yorker sent us on a mad, and unsuccessful scramble, through Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood in search of some yaji. What caused the yaji hysteria at the TofT headquarters? The...
View ArticleNews Alert: Egusi Found in Chicago
The range of West African food options in Chicago, USA is not great. As we’ve lamented in earlier posts, if you’re a Cubs fan looking for Nigerian food – or Ghanaian or Senegalese – your best is...
View ArticleSenegalese Take-Out & Baobab-Infused Vinaigrette — Sooner
It’s highly satisfying to be proved right, especially in the face of nattering nabobs of negativism who ridicule you for being nuts and suggest that you are irresponsible, or possibly stoned. I’m not...
View ArticleWelcome Enterprising, African Cuisine-Curious Tribune Readers!
If you’re visiting The Taste of Tomorrow site for the first time, it’s probably because you just read “A Taste of Tomorrow, Today,” Bill Daley’s story in the Chicago Tribune. After reading Bill’s...
View ArticleThe Sweet Taste of Vindication — aka Spicy Baobab Barbecue Sauce and Lemon...
Lemon piri piri chicken wings, baby back ribs barbecued in a smoky baobab sauce, a salad drizzled with a baobab pepper vinaigrette, French fries dipped in African ketchup. If you’ve been in the orbit...
View ArticleThe Rick Bayless of Sub-Saharan African Food?
Sub-Saharan African food needs a Rick Bayless-figure. Bayless, the celebrity chef, founder of Frontera Grill, PBS star, host of the series Mexico: One Plate at a Time, helped introduce millions of...
View ArticleZingerman’s Declares Maafe “Food Find of the Year”… Baobab Fruit Cubes… More...
“If it’s food, and it’s from south of the Sahara, buy it. The Taste of Tomorrow editorial memo, May 2011 As regular TofT readers know, in addition to trying to persuade you to eat genetically...
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