Table of Contents

Introduction
A Bowl of Aloof Nigerian Soup
How to Make Meat
The Purist’s Pot of Soup
My Mother, I Will Not Eat Rice Today
Bones of Choice
Eating Dog
Akara and Honey
Kings of Umami
Letter from Candahar Road
Okro Soup, Gorgeous Mucilage
Long Throat Memoirs
The Snail Tree
Fainting at the Sight of an Egg
Sweet Stolen Waters
Forgotten Seasoning Secrets
A Beautiful Girl Named Ogbono
Henshaw Town Beach Market
Ekoki Like Gold
To Cook or Not to Cook
Okro Soup and the Demonic Encyclopaedia of Dreams
Oseani Mellowing, Bursting, Deepening, Merging
Institution of Stew
Lost in Translation
Afang Soup and Hairy Legs
Between Eba and Gari
Ila Cocoa
Nsala with Chicken
Fermentation and Fornication
Rice in Many Guises
Fish Soups and Love Potions
Dead Man’s Helmet
Peppered Snails
Ram Testicle Suya
Ewa Oloyin
Bush Cuisine
Between a Trophy and a Wife
The Secret Ingredient of My Secret Ingredient Soup
Molara’s Jollof Beans
The Marketplace
Safe as Stews
A Pot from Efak Satan
Bibliography
Acknowledgements

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About the Author

Yemisi Aribisala is a writer and a lover of good food. She has written about Nigerian food for over 7 years; for 234Next, the Chimurenga Chronic, and at her personal blog, Longthroat Memoirs. Her essays on food are a lens through which the complex entity of Nigeria is observed. Yemisi has also written essays on various topics including Nigerian Christianity and identity. Her essays can be read online under Yemisi Ogbe.