Item 13: An African Food Podcast

Kodjo Adovor is a Certified Italian Wine Professional and the first person of African descent to qualify as an Italian Wine Ambassador.

Kodjo is the founder and sommelier at Africa Wine Club, which seeks to bring club members together to explore wine, food, culture, and business across the continent of Africa.

Kodjo has also led travel groups to explore the joys of Italian food and wine on guided tours in places like Milan, Bologna, Umbria, Venice, Verona, and the Valpollicela.

Find Kodjo on Instagram: @winekodjo

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We want to personally invite you to a live HRN event Yorm is hosting on Wednesday, May 31st at 6:00 PM in Brooklyn.

Join Yorm for Chop {Bar} and Chat, a conversation with African chefs on how they're bringing their unique experiences to global audiences, one plate at a time. Featuring: Delectable African bites & Afrobeats, Chop Bar & Chat is a fresh perspective on African cuisine and celebrates the diversity and richness of this culinary heritage.

For more information or to reserve tickets go to heritageradionetwork.org/eventseries

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I wanted to tell you about an upcoming event —  I’ll be moderating a live stream on Kittch, a new social live streaming community for food lovers.  On April 21st, at 2pm ET, join me and Chef Ali Rosen for a recipe demo of Portobellos with Goat Cheese and a conversation about mushrooms in celebration of Earth Month.  You can find this event, HRN’s creator channel, and other upcoming streams at kittch.com.

Bukola ‘Bukie’ Tinko is a Nigerian food blogger, food consultant and recipe developer. She’s a self taught chef who loves creating beautiful yet flavorful dishes. She inspires everyone to cook with simple, easy to follow recipes on her YouTube channel. Bukie is also the 2017 Eloy Female Chef of the Year.

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Freda Muyambo is a food blogger and writer with expertise in African cuisine and a passion for sharing African culture through food. She often describes herself as having a pan-African palate, having been born and raised in Botswana to Ghanaian parents and travelling extensively across Africa. She has explored culinary cultures across the broad and bold topic of African cuisine and will often experiment with using ingredients in a new way.

Freda currently resides in Lagos, Nigeria, where she is acquiring primary knowledge in the use of local flavours, indigenous fruits and spices. One of her greatest accomplishments has been developing a creative recipe using a local Nigerian fruit, Agbalumo, the African Cherry; incorporating it into a dessert she has named “Agbalumo Blondie.” She has pitched it to supermarkets and successfully sold it as a new bakery item in Lagos, adding to the food value chain and culinary history of the country. Freda continues to explore how she can use indigenous produce to promote food security within Africa.

Her position as one of Africa's most innovative food experts was cemented in December 2015 during a live BBC interview where she presented yam pasta, a novel pasta dough recipe she had invented just the night before, using West African yams. Up until this point, there was no other record of yam pasta having been made. She has also had features on CNN and the African Economist as one of Africa’s top food bloggers. She has written for various online and offline publications including IAC Media (About.com/The Spruce Eats), The Guardian, Radiant Health Magazine and co-authored a spice book published by Penguin Random House group this coming October 2018. Her expertise is highly sought after, where she works with local and international brands developing recipes to help them reach new markets.

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