Tiebu djeun, a sort of West African paella revered as the national dish of Senegal Credit: Danielle A. Scruggs There are a lot of secrets in the kitchen at Gorée Cuisine, a new Senegalese restaurant ...

Pierre Thiam moved from Dakar to New York City to go to college. For the Senegalese national, the city was supposed to be a stopping point on his way to study physics and chemistry at a small school ...

For Ndeye “Queen” Ndir, July 21 marked a lot of firsts. Not only was it the day she opened her first restaurant, Ndindy African Cuisine, at 2600 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., but it was also the first ...

It is a warm July evening in Barcelona, and in a few days, Serigne Mbaye will return to Senegal. The trip will be his second as an adult, but he’s no tourist — the New York-born 24-year-old cook spent ...

Ask a Dakar local where to find the best food, and they’ll quickly tell you in a loved one’s home kitchen. But for those who aren’t from Senegal’s capital city, there’s luckily no shortage of ...

Feature'Home-made!' Our food journalist explores your home kitchens. In Binta Wade's Boulogne-Billancourt home, he learns how to make tasty Senegalese specialties. When we entered 37-year-old Binta ...