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  1. Eating Flowers: Discover the Floral Plants That Adorn Native Dishes

    August 24, 2025
    You are what you eat. Our food source is an organic element of nature. Cuisine is the application of cultivated knowledge about how to use earthen materials for our nourishment and survival. Our beloved planet, our mothership, provides all the tastes, textures and nutrients in food for us to consume.…

  2. Ice Dye: The Benefits of Ice for Extracting Botanical Color

    July 15, 2025
    Summer heat has infused our side of the globe with lots of warmth. Humidity is high and rains are intense, gushing and fleeting.  I love this time of year in the tropics because it reminds me about the importance of balance and duality — while some plants struggle in hot…

  3. Ata Ile Pupa: Turmeric in Yoruba Language

    June 11, 2025
    My mother’s heritage is Yoruba from West Africa. Yoruba people are descendants of Ancient Egyptians along the Nile Valley. Long ago, they migrated from the eastern to western coasts of the motherland and settled in the ancient city of Ile-Ife. Today, the Yoruba occupy Nigeria, Benin and Togo. Many diasporic…

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