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This Designer Shares 3 Tips for Upgrading Your Dining Room

According to Whitney Jones, a New Orleans-based interior designer, renovating your dining room is simpler than most people think.

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Judy’s Flavourful Kenyan Goat Meat Pilau

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This week’s takeover took us into Judy’s Kenyan kitchen abroad, in Denmark to be specific, where she showed us out to make Goat Pilau. Similar […]

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Mariia’s Sweet South Sudanese Kuindiong

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In our most recent takeover, Mariia of Mariia’s Kitchen shared with us one of her favourite Sudanese dishes: Kuindiong! Although based in Sydney, Australia, Mariia […]

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Zoe’s Lusciously Delicious Ghanaian Aboboi

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Our latest takeover took us to Zoe Adjonyoh’s kitchen in the UK, where she shared her spin on the beloved Ghanaian dish Aboboi.  View this post […]

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4 Ancestral Foods to Help Boost Your Immune System

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With the pandemic still very much looming over us, cold and flu prevention has become even more important. A great way to prevent yourself falling […]

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Present, Alive, and Thriving

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Growing up in Toronto, I remember our picnics being communal events. We had church picnics and the Toronto Ghanaian community picnics at Rowntree Park, close […]

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Caribbean People Picnic, Too!

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I recall spending summers with my cousins in Trelawny, a town in the Jamaican countryside.  The drive to my cousins’ house was long and winding […]

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Yes, Black People DO Picnic.

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Type the word “picnic” into a search engine or stock photo website; what do you see? Look at the ads for sparkling wines or picnic […]

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Why We Love Eating Al Fresco

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 I was 11 years-old during the Northeast Blackout of 2003 when the electricity in most of Ontario suddenly went down for several hours in August. […]

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Explore The African Side of Paris That You Didn’t Know About

My first visit to Paris was during an 8 hour layover flight from Ibiza back to the States. I was traveling with my #girlsquad, and […]

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