The Swahili coast culinary tradition — developed along the 3,000km of coastline from Somalia through Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique — is one of the world's great undocumented culinary traditions. Its combination of East African agricultural knowledge, Indian Ocean spice trade ingredients, and Islamic culinary principles produced a cooking tradition of extraordinary depth that has been almost entirely absent from English-language culinary scholarship until recently.
The defining techniques of Swahili coast cooking.
EAST AFRICAN SLAVE ROUTES + CONTEMPORARY BLACK CULINARY RECLAMATION + ITALIAN REGIONAL DEEP