Rich local foods on the brink of extinction

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• Dessie 8 years ago

  The festivals in Ghana are mostly links with voodooism of shrines; so the food for these festivals are special made recipes said to be request from the spirits behind these shrines of which Hommowo festival is part of the bi ...
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  The festivals in Ghana are mostly links with voodooism of shrines; so the food for these festivals are special made recipes said to be request from the spirits behind these shrines of which Hommowo festival is part of the big festivals whose recipes for celebration of the festival are said to be special request by these spirits behind the shrines..historically and traditionally,there are certain recipies of food that are offered to shrines occasionally. These recipies of food has become traditional food for these kinds of shrines on festivities..becareful eating these kinds of food at festivities

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• Gadd 8 years ago

  Kpokpoi is tasteless. I don't see how anybody can call it tasty, but, well, we have different taste buds.
  
  Kpokpoi is only as good as the soup that goes with it. And Gas are not the best makers of palm fruit soup. They are ...
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  Kpokpoi is tasteless. I don't see how anybody can call it tasty, but, well, we have different taste buds.
  
  Kpokpoi is only as good as the soup that goes with it. And Gas are not the best makers of palm fruit soup. They are better at other things like kenkey, shitto, tatale - but not making palm fruit soup.
  
  The problem is that much of the food we eat in Ghana sucks! We have not sufficiently exploited the natural resources we have. Our trained cooks have to experiment more with the items we have - make different dishes than the ones we already know.
  
  We eat fufu too much. Fufu itself is tasteless. Like kpokpoi, fufu and banku are only as good as the soup that goes with them.
  
  We should ban ads of food that is just full of oil. We eat too much oily things in Ghana. Noodles (Ndomie) ads on tv should be banned.

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• Babatunde 8 years ago

  I totally agree with you. The current generation associate eating foreign food as status in society. Most young females do not learn how to prepare local diets from their mothers and prefer "take away meals". If you mention l ...
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  I totally agree with you. The current generation associate eating foreign food as status in society. Most young females do not learn how to prepare local diets from their mothers and prefer "take away meals". If you mention local meals like ampooti. apreprensa or nkyekyeraa they look at you as if you are from a different planet.

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