For Dr. Jessica B. Harris, the allure of chicken yassa comes down to its simplicity. "It's my good-luck dish, in a way," the James Beard Award-winning food historian told TODAY Food. "Lemons are ...

Did you know Kwanzaa was founded by a UCLA alum? Maulana Karenga introduced the holiday during the frenetic days of the 1960s civil rights movement. He saw Kwanzaa as a way to celebrate black culture ...

For newcomers to African cuisine, why not make the first dish one of the most delicious? Yassa chicken (known as yassa au poulet) is a traditional chicken dish from the Casamance region of Senegal in ...

The celebrity chef shares a popular Senegalese dish featured in his new cookbook The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food. "I hope yassa, typically served with chicken, gets its place in ...

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The people of Senegal are famous for their generosity. The Wolof word (Wolof is the language most widely spoken in Senegal) is “teranga,” meaning “hospitality,” and teranga is most often expressed by ...

Goat equsi-Ghanaian stew; Yassa chicken-Senegalese chicken; ebbeh-Gambian seafood stew In this episode, Seth meets with the chefs who are putting their own twists on the bold flavors and colors of ...

Some of the better egg rolls this purebred Asian sampled happened at, of all places, a Senegalese restaurant in Bronzeville called Yassa. What’s more beguiling is that when I dipped those thin, lacy ...

The remarkable Jessica Harris, African-food scholar, taught me the right way to make Chicken Yassa, the Senegalese favorite. But that was over twenty years ago, and as beloved recipes often do, this ...