My African Kitchen Cookbook

About the Book

The cookbook recipes are generally quite nutrient dense and contain a lot of fiber and antioxidants. Although African cooking is all about throwing all the ingredients together and tasting as you cook, this cookbook gives beginners and advanced cooks a choice to add and subtract ingredients and still have healthy and delicious meals. The cooking methods employed in this cookbook add minimal fats and try to retain the natural flavor of the foods, and meals are often steamed, boiled, roasted, or baked. Some are fried. This cookbook contains traditional, healthy recipes based on whole food and unprocessed ingredients, and they are full of a variety of nutrients. These traditional African recipes have been passed on from one generation to another. This cookbook has a collection of recipes across Africa. Since each recipe is presented in easy-to-follow steps, the book also has a broad audience and appeals to beginner-level cooks and also advanced cooks because of the unique global content.

About the Author

Gbelee was born and raised in a traditional African family where every woman had to learn how to cook, clean and be responsible house wife. During Gbelee's days of learning how to cook traditional African food, she had to memorize all the African recipes that were passed on from one generation to another and prepare them properly Gbelee Sumo, fled her country because of war and lives inbthe neighboring (Guinea) as a refugee for over 14 years. In 2005, she came to Canada as a refugee but landed in Charlottetown, PEI. After nine months of living in PEI, she moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta where she attended the Medicine Hat College from 2006 to 2011.