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Preserving traditional recipes

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What Are People Eating Now?

Abner's grandparents made fu fu the traditional way, using ingredients like yam and green bananas called plantains. The traditional method was to pound fu foo, to crush it into a paste or powder. But nowadays many people buy ready made flour and cook fofoo the modern way on a stove. For abner, this represented an departure from ancestral ways of cooking. And she decided that something had to be done. She travelled around garne to document traditional recipes before they were lost for ever. If her story has inspired you to find out about your own s traditional recipes or discover more about garnean cooking, you can read more on abner's web site, living the ancestral way

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