Africa’s Great Cuisines

When it comes to food and drink in Africa, african food is generally quite gentle of course the likes of snails and rodents in west africa, snakes in central africa,monkeys, cats and dogs eaten in Ghana, termites, or even locusts eaten in Uganda are exceptions.You will often find foods like pizza, burgers (or at least attemps at pizzas and burgers) chicken and fries in most towns in Africa.

Should you want a taste of the local cuisine you will often find a lot and a variety depending on where you are in Africa. By far the best known of Africa’s finest traditional dishes are Moroccan, Ethiopian and Swahili dishes. Morocco offers tajines, couscous (possibly getting its insipation from West Africa, where it’s traditionally steamed in baobab leaves), great tasting soups and scrumptious sweets. In East Africa and along the coast Swahili cooking rules supriem, making loving use of herds and spices introduced into Africa from Arabia, India and the Far East, with seafood being especially good.

Ethiopian cuisine is in a class of its own: injera as it is known is the staple and is a large pancake from which diners which they use to scoop up dollops of highly spiced stews.Seafood is prepared differently in different regions. In Zanzibar it is prepared spicy, in coconut sauce or steffed with vegetables and cooked in tomato, in Senegal. In South Africa, Brits can truly feel at home with fish and chips off course minus the newspaper. In many parts of Africa especially in the countryside it’s best to eat fish close to the places where they are caught.For the meat eaters or carnivores as they like to be called, Kenya’s carnivore restaurant in Nairobi is a great place to indulge. Here you can try game meat from impala steaks, hippo, ostrich to crocodile burgers which by the way taste either like fish or chicken depending on what the crocodiles which are often breed on crocodile farms were feed on.

In southern africa namely South Africa, Namibia and Botswana popular barbecues feature all kinds of meat and Boerwurst sausages which are often washed down with good beer.

In rural Kenya smoked wild birds are also a popular snack.