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This book celebrates the enduring power of food to nourish, connect, and heal, especially during challenging times like the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a collection of diverse recipes from across Africa – Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Uganda – featuring dishes like fufu, Pondu, and fried rice, it showcases the continent's rich culinary heritage. For migrants, food is a powerful link to home and heritage, shaping identity, fostering community, and providing comfort. The book chronicles how women used food to create joy, care, and connection during the pandemic, highlighting the importance of culinary traditions in fostering resilience and well-being. It is a testament to the vital role that food plays in our lives, both as a source of nourishment and as a means of cultural expression and connection, made accessible to all through globalization.
Over the last two decades the expanding role of Southern countries as development partners has led to tectonic shifts in global development ideas, practices, norms and actors. Researchers are faced with new questions around identity, power and positionality in global development. Researching South-South Development Cooperationexamines this rapidly growing and complex phenomenon, asking to what extent existing assumptions, conceptual frameworks and definitions of 'development' need to be reframed in the context of researching this new landscape. This interdisciplinary book draws on voices from across the Global South and North to explore the epistemological and related methodological challeng...
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“Infogest” (Improving Health Properties of Food by Sharing our Knowledge on the Digestive Process) is an EU COST action/network in the domain of Food and Agriculture that will last for 4 years from April 4, 2011. Infogest aims at building an open international network of institutes undertaking multidisciplinary basic research on food digestion gathering scientists from different origins (food scientists, gut physiologists, nutritionists...). The network gathers 70 partners from academia, corresponding to a total of 29 countries. The three main scientific goals are: Identify the beneficial food components released in the gut during digestion; Support the effect of beneficial food componen...
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Laughing Store is just what we need in times of troubles and uncertainties such as these. A book of humour from an acclaimed master of laughter, it lifts our hearts and raises our spirits. Jokes that touch about every domain of existence - from sex to religion, from births to deaths, from politics to the beer parlour, from the courtroom to the hospital. And most important of all, conceived in the supremely original Cameroonian flavour of jokes.