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What's in season: a West African winter basket
What we are buying in this month, why yam gets better in the cold, and how to keep plantains from turning on you.
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What to cook, what is in season, and how to use it — from West African and Caribbean kitchens.
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What we are buying in this month, why yam gets better in the cold, and how to keep plantains from turning on you.
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Ground melon seed thickens into something rich and nutty. Ugu goes in at the very end so it keeps its bite and its colour.
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Smoky, deeply savoury and worth the argument. The base is a slow-cooked pepper stew — rush it and you get orange rice, not jollof.
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