The groundnut
2011 - 2016
From 2011 to 2016 I ran a food project with Duval Timothy and Jacob Fodio Todd - The Groundnut. Using this platform, we explored our heritage in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South-Sudan, hosting bi-monthly dinners in temporary and improvised spaces across South London. For these events, we designed original set-menus, complementary tableware, and built bespoke furniture. Each night we welcomed over thirty guests to dine on long communal tables, enjoying our adaptations of Sub-Saharan African food, banquet style.
Other highlights include workshops at The Albany Deptford, an interactive installation - The Groundnut Table - at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, talks at The Southbank Centre and Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, and pop-up dinners at Le Bal Cafe, Paris. After four years of dinners with a diverse audience, interspersed with periods of travel, we created ‘The Groundnut Cookbook’, published by Penguin in the summer of 2015. ‘Food from Across Africa’ was later published in the USA by Ecco, Harper Collins, and a recipe from our book features in the compilation ‘Black Food’.
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