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Event Recap: The BLACK FOODIE Week Market
This year we kicked off BLACK FOODIE Week with a live, in-person marketplace in Toronto. With a range of Black-owned food businesses to shop from, live music, free prizes and giveaways, the event was a vibrant love letter to Black food culture!
If you missed it, check out the BFW '21 Highlight on our Instagram page for more recap footage! Special thanks to Interac and Canadian Tire for supporting the market alongside the City of Brampton, the Culinary Tourism Alliance, and Restaurants Canada.
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Learn how to make Doro wot also known as Tsebhi Dorho, a special Ethiopian and Eritrean chicken stew with boiled eggs. This stew is served on special holidays and is a labour of love, so it’s a special treat anytime doro wot is served. This recipe serves more as guidlines so feel free to adjust as needed. Traditionally, we don’t use recipes or measuring tools to make Ethiopian/ Eritrean food but this should help anyone who loves Doro wot recreate this special dish at home!
Note: This recipe calls for a few ingredients that can usually only be found at East African stores like Mekelesha spice, Korrarima spice, Tesmi (Kibbeh) and Berbere (be sure to get this spice from an East African vendor because the Berbere sold in mainstream stores doesn’t compare!). You can replace the Tesmi spiced clarified butter with Ghee but it won’t have same flavour as it’s missing the spices).
This is my go-to wing sauce for summer cookouts because of how delicious and easy it is to make. You can also cook the wings in the oven and baste them with the sauce twice before you take them out.
I always tell my children that when they think they’ve minced the garlic, they should do it 5 more times. If you want a distinct wing sauce, use real garlic, not garlic powder.
This is the most quintessential Bahamian dish, a rice so flavourful, “you’ll want to eat the spoon!” Andros is the largest island in the Bahamas (2,300 square miles), known as “The Land of Crabs.” It’s home of the annual crab festival and the birthplace of my grandmother, she made it best with the addition of coconut oil, earthy pigeon peas and salted beef.
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