This past October, I had the opportunity to visit the West African country of Senegal. This was my first time in that part of Africa, and I’ve been wanting to visit for many years. I was extra ...

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 ...

The prices of many staple foods in Senegal have spiked in recent years. As a result, the national dish, thieboudienne, is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chicken Mafe a West African stew with a peanut coconut sauce. It is a joke — rooted in truth as so much humor is — that many a ...

The story on African fare in today’s Daily News profiles Pierre Thiam, the Senegalese-born chef of Le Grand Dakar in Clinton Hill. When he’s not working at the restaurant, he teaches culinary students ...

Farideh Sadeghin is a chef and video host based in Brooklyn. In this series, she explores New York City neighborhoods through their food and histories. Le Petit Senegal in Central Harlem has been home ...

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 ...

For decades, the Mission’s Little Baobab has served Senegalese dishes like tangy, mustard-based yassa by day and groovy Burna Boy Afrobeats by night. Now the restaurant is ready for a larger space ...