Elsewhere in southwest Houston, Ms. Lakshmi tastes suya, bole, fufu, asun and jollof, tries her hand at pounding yam and practices the art of scooping soup with swallows.
She moves from the kitchen at Margaret Chibuzo’s Safari restaurant to the dining room, where she shares egusi soup with the gospel singer Stacy Egbo.
I encountered not just the Nigerian, but the Liberian, Ghanaian and broader West African communities in Newark and Charlotte, Atlanta and Albuquerque.
By ensuring access to ingredients, they’d helped steward our shared culture a world away.
Versions of egusi soup dotted menus in every city we stopped, and I relished each one.
Persons:
jollof, Margaret Chibuzo’s, Stacy Egbo, they’d
Organizations:
Liberian
Locations:
Houston, bole, fufu, United States, Newark, Charlotte, Atlanta, Albuquerque