Latest Ethnic cuisine Podcast Episodes
Dr. Wanida Lewis on Building a Black Food Community & Enterprise in Accra
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - February 28, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDr. Wanida Lewis is the Founder and CEO of Crescendo Foods, Ghana and West Africa’s first shared commercial kitchen co-working hub located in Accra, Ghana. Dr. Lewis has over ten years’ experience leading initiatives and strategic partnerships throughout the African continent. She has a BS in Ch...
Nkem Oghedo on Spreading Joy through Black Cuisine
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - February 22, 2023 14:07 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsA Queens, NY native, Nkem Oghedo is the founder of Adá, a community & online destination for global Black food culture. Previously, she worked in management consulting and served as the Chief of Staff of wellness tech startup, Care/of. Her professional mission is to create equitable economies in...
Selasie Dotse on Blackness in Fine Dining
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - February 14, 2023 20:18 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsBorn in Accra, Ghana but raised in the American South, food was always a large part of Selasie's life. For the past 5 years, Chef Selasie has worked at several well-known fine dining restaurants across the San Francisco - Bay area such as Bird Dog, Mourad, SPQR, Avery and Lazy Bear. She currentl...
Selassie Atadika Experiments with African Flavors via Midunu Chocolates
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - February 07, 2023 17:24 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAfter over a decade spent engaged in humanitarian work with the United Nations and years of self-teaching in the culinary arts, Selassie Atadika completed course work at the Culinary Institute of America. Her company Midunu, a nomadic and private dining enterprise in Accra embodies ‘New African ...
REPLAY: Changing Food Narratives in Africa with Ndidi Nwuneli
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - October 04, 2022 20:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week we're re-broadcasting our episode with Mrs. Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, co-founder of AACE Foods and an expert on social innovation, African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, and youth development. Ndidi has over 25 years of international development experience and is a recogniz...
Edwina Morgan is Re-imagining West African Food with Waakye Leaf
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - September 27, 2022 20:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week's guest is Edwina Morgan of Waakye Leaf. The idea for Waakye Leaf was born out of a genuine love for building cultural bridges by sharing traditional African culinary knowledge with the world in the most creative and innovative ways in order to provoke, delight and rouse interest. Es...
Chef Pierre Thiam
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - September 13, 2022 20:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week's guest is US-based African chef, cookbook author and activist Pierre Thiam. Pierre (who was born and raised in Senegal and now lives in the Bay Area) has dedicated his career to making West African cuisine and ingredients accessible to new audiences in the US and beyond. He’s the exe...
Afua Ayisi's Bosuo Foods
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - July 20, 2022 21:22 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsInspired by her daughters, Afua Ayisi started a bottled beverage business featuring herbal teas across the continent. Starting with the roselle hibiscus tea, popularly known in Francophone West Africa as Bissau, the idea is to craft and produce delicious and low caloric ready to drink teas void ...
Samantha Kotey's Auntie's Ice Cream
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - July 12, 2022 21:41 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsSamantha Kotey is a corporate attorney, food enthusiast, and cook born and raised in Houston, TX to Ghanaian immigrants. Growing up with a Ghanaian mother who proudly subscribed to traditional West African social norms meant that food was at the forefront of her life from a very young age. Early...
Dine Diaspora and EatOkra Black Women in Food Grant
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - July 05, 2022 20:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsEatOkra, in partnership with Dine Diaspora, is providing $10,000 grants for Black women-owned restaurants across the United States. The EatOkra Black Women in Food Grants provide capital for Black women to accelerate growth for their brick-and-mortar restaurants. Aligned with EatOkra’s values,...
A New Season...and 13 Items
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - June 28, 2022 20:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsBack with a new season and can’t wait for you to hear! This week, I’m trying out a new segment/episode format: I3 Items on Item 13 featuring thirteen food-related things I’m eating, reading, watching, participating in, etc. Items featured in this week’s episode: A Mom Potluck Poks Spices TJ’s S...
Virtual Event on April 21st
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - April 19, 2022 15:40 - 49 seconds ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI 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 celebra...
Changing Narratives Africa Fellow Aderoju Odunsi of Sorello Food and Beverage
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - March 22, 2022 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis season, we’re showcasing stories from the inaugural class of Changing Narratives Africa Fellowship, a highly selective program for African food entrepreneurs who are ready to scale their brands into global markets. Aderoju Odunsi is an agribusiness specialist and has been an entrepreneur, t...
Changing Narratives Africa Fellow Temi Jebutu of AACE Foods
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - March 01, 2022 21:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis season, we’re showcasing stories from the inaugural class of Changing Narratives Africa Fellowship, a highly selective program for African food entrepreneurs who are ready to scale their brands into global markets. This week’s guest is Temi Jebutu, a Nigerian Agribusiness professional with ...
We've Been Nominated for The TASTE AWARDS!!
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - February 23, 2022 02:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe've been nominated for The Taste Awards! Listen for details in the show and vote today! Voting closes on March 11, 2022. Vote for Viewer's Choice Awards here. See other Heritage Radio Network Shows Nominated here. Photo Courtesy of Yorm Ackuaku. Follow Item 13 on social media: Instagram,...
Changing Narratives Africa Fellow Ebun Feludu of JAM Coconut Food Company: Building a Legacy Business
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - February 15, 2022 21:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis season, we’re showcasing stories from the inaugural class of Changing Narratives Africa Fellowship, a highly selective program for African food entrepreneurs who are ready to scale their brands into global markets. This week’s guest is Ebun Feludu. She runs JAM The Coconut Food Company- a ...
Changing Narratives Africa Fellow William Omamo of KnK Peppers
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - February 06, 2022 16:18 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis season, we’re showcasing stories from the inaugural class of Changing Narratives Africa Fellowship, a highly selective program for African food entrepreneurs who are ready to scale their brands into global markets. This week’s guest is William Omamo, a Kenyan national and trained hospitalit...
Changing Narratives Africa Fellow Chichi Eriobu of Phronesis Foods: Celebrating the Ukwa Fruit
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - January 31, 2022 23:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis season, we’re showcasing stories from the inaugural class of Changing Narratives Africa Fellowship, a highly selective program for African food entrepreneurs who are ready to scale their brands into global markets. This week’s guest is Chichi Eriobu, the Founder and CEO of Phronesis Foods N...
REPLAY: Building an African CPG Brand with the Ginjan Brothers
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - January 28, 2022 19:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week we're re-broadcasting in celebration of the Ginjan Brothers' recent feature in Humans of New York. And big news: we're launching a new season of Item 13 starting on February 1st! In the meantime, here's the story of Mohammed and Ibrahima from episodes 46 and 47. Ginjan Brothers was f...
Building an African Food Marketplace with Whitney Osei-Akintaju
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - November 16, 2021 21:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWhitney Osei-Akintaju was born in Kibi, Ghana, and migrated to the United States with her father when she was six years old. In her sophomore year of high school, she took a web design and multimedia class which sparked her passion for tech. In 2011, she began competing in pageants and was named...
Changing Food Narratives in Africa with Ndidi Nwuneli
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - November 09, 2021 21:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMrs. Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is an expert on social innovation, African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, and youth development. She has over 25 years of international development experience and is a recognized serial entrepreneur, author, public speaker, and consultant. Through her wo...
A Bi-Continental Wine Business with Tuanni Price
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - November 02, 2021 20:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAward winning International Wine Educator Tuanni Price is on a mission to make the complicated world of wine simple. In fact, that is the motto of her wine lifestyle business, Zuri Wine Tasting. The self-proclaimed wine enthusiast curates’ wine-filled lifestyles from Southern California to the S...
Building Taco Africana with Zinyusile Khumbula (Zi)
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - October 26, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsZinyusile Khumbula (Zi) was born in Zimbabwe and spent some of his childhood in South Africa. He moved to the United States in September 2009 and been a resident of Harlem since 2014 where he has launched New York’s First Pop Up African Taqueria, Taco Africana. Zi’s daily inspiration is the miss...
The Revolution Will Be Brewed with Margaret Nyamumbo
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - October 05, 2021 20:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMargaret is the founder of Kahawa 1893 Coffee. She is a third generation coffee farmer from Kenya and grew up on a coffee farm immigrating to the USA. After earning her MBA from Harvard, she went on to work on Wall Street, where she rediscovered her passion for coffee. She founded Kahawa 1893 wi...
Ancestral Food Ways with Abena Offeh-Gyimah
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - September 28, 2021 20:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAbena Offeh-Gyimah is a writer, a researcher, a business owner, and an advocate for an indigenous food sovereignty system. She's worked at Black Creek Community Farm as a coordinator for the youth farming program, with Building Roots as an urban gardener coordinator, with North York Community Ho...
The Black Gourmet with Malicka Anjorin
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - September 21, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week’s guest is Malicka Anjorin, a Digital Forensic consultant by profession and a content creator by passion. Malicka inspires home cooks to explore West African dishes and learn more about our culture through food through her platform, The Black Gourmet. Find Malicka Anjorin on instagra...
Veganism, Gentrification...and Chocolate with Afia Amoako
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - September 14, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week’s guest is Afia Amoako , a PhD student who loves talking about veganism as it relates to my culture. On her platforms, she shares easy vegan recipes that highlight Ghanaian and West African food culture, ingredients and cooking methods. She challenges her audience to think outside the ...
REPLAY: Communal Dining The Beninois Way with Adégnimika Carrena
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - June 15, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week’s guest is Adégnimika (Adé) Carrena, owner of Dounou Cuisine. Born in Porto-Novo, Benin, Adé started her culinary journey here in the United States when she was adopted at the age of 10. Though then she cooked just with her family. She says her passion did not grow until a few years ag...
Food Labeling & Packaging for Small Food Businesses with Abena Foli
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - March 23, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAbena Foli was born and raised in Ghana until 2006, when she immigrated to the US. Her passion for food comes from her farmer-father who taught her how to blend spices, and how to cook. Since high school, Abena has been passionate about combining her love for food, with her love for the sciences...
Take Two with Carol Mathias O'chez
Item 13: An African Food Podcast - March 16, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsTake Two is our new mini-series, catching up with guests from previous seasons on what they’ve been up to since they were last on the show. This week, I chat with Carol Mathias O’chez, a psychologist passionate about helping people thrive in all areas of their life. We discuss the mental toll ...
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