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Travel to Nigeria by plate with my debut cookbook, Chop Chop. Chop Chop is available to BUY NOW, everywhere you get your books. Chop Chop celebrates the vibrant, diverse world of Nigerian cuisine, featuring dishes like spiced beef suya, rich egusi soup, jollof rice, puff puff, and hibiscus drinks. Join author, Ozoz Sokoh on this journey, as you explore the country’s beloved tastes and flavors in hearty soups, stews, rice dishes, fritters, and more. This book brings traditional Nigerian cuisine to home kitchens, and is full of historical context, ingredient profiles, and stunning visuals, capturing the nation’s food-loving spirit and cultural richness.

 

 

 

The #NewNigerianKitchen
T
he ‘New Nigerian Kitchen’ is a term I coined in 2013 and articulated in my 2014 TEDx Talk to describe my approach and practice to the many faces and facets of Nigerian cuisine and my strong belief that Food is more than eating –
practically all aspects of life are reflected on the plate. I think of it as is the sum total of life and embraces all aspects of living and being, from geography to history and culture, heritage, legacy, politics and economics, colonization, decolonization, movement, and migration,

language, religion knowledge, production and transmission, roots and origins, erasure and representation and everything in between, especially the intersections and interactions between these and other aspects of life – gender ideas and ideals, race and much more…Read More

 

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Ozoz Sokoh

a.k.a The Kitchen Butterfly

Ozoz Sokoh is a food explorer, educator, budding curator, and Traveler By Plate, for whom “Food Is More Than Eating”. In 2009, she began journaling about food on her blog, Kitchen Butterfly. In 2013, she created the #NewNigerianKitchen, developing her philosophy and practice with Nigerian food. Also central to her work is connectedness through food, from food sovereignty, cultural identity, reclamation of the food system and importantly, the joy of eating.

Her research and documentation explore the roots of Nigerian and West African cuisine, the impact of West African intellectual contributions to global development from the American South, through the Caribbean to Europe and Latin America, and the connection to the Afro-diaspora.

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