Why didn't Africa cuisine have international success comparable to others?
no sizeable diaspora to spread the food. Chinese food was brought to the west by Chinese immigrants, Italian food by Italians. There are not millions of dark Africans pouring through Ellis Island and occupying an entire social class of cities like the former.Also Afro-Caribbean foods have had a huge influence on American food, southern, cajun, creole, etc.
Africa is a continent. I've had Nigerian and Ethiopian food just off the top of my head. Fucking Marcus Samuelsson rules. It'll never be Chinese or Italian, but that's fine by me.
>>21992111>Africa is a continenti'm glad you know a bit of geography.in fact, to further help your cause, there's an ethiopian restaurant down the street from me.i live in texas.
>>21992102Because my mom makes all the jollof rice and egusi soup I need
>>21992102because if the plates not empty it's not African cuisine.
Everything cooked in sub sahara is foul.The food in Egypt and Morocco is OK but it only gets worse the further south you go, and it's a long long way to mukambura, where it suddenly improves.
>>21992230name 1 egyptian food
>>21992234mummies
>>21992234kfc.
>>21992102but it did?
>>21992234Jackie Chan
how much soup and starch does the world need
>>21992109>no sizeable diaspora to spread the food>Also Afro-Caribbean foods have had a huge influence on American food, southern, cajun, creole, etc.pick one. there was a time when there were far more africans in the new world than chinese or italian.
its basically caribbean food. everyone knows what jerk chicken is.
>>21992234fried crocodile leg
>>21992234Koshary, Hamam Mahshi
>>21992102Because they literally didn't have any cuisine and most of it is taken from the colonial powers.
>>21992399>its basically caribbean food.No it's not.
>>21992102>Why didn't Africa cuisine have international success comparable to others?because they have nothing.The only thing worthwhile is arab influenced food in North Africa, in countries like Tunisia or Morocco.
>>21992102Africa evokes this image of cannibalism you just don't associate with edible foods. >>21992109We have gullah foods, and AA contributions to Creole, and plenty of African vegetables like watermelon
>>21992234the only one I know for sure is ful medames
>>21992109>no sizeable diaspora lolthe real answer is the lack of tourism councils or government efforts to export their cuisinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_cuisine#:~:text=Thai%20Delicious%22%20projectmost developed countries have some form of effort funded by either their government or a consortium of tourism companies to promote their food
>>21992109I mean slavery was their diaspora, but it was assimilated by their host culture, most regretably
>>21992509>the real answer isIn my mind it's real.The fact is apart from what I said here >>21992485They have nothing of value to offer, it really is as simple as that.
it just doesn't look appetizing tbqh, looks very dry.
>>21992522fried rice is supposed to be dry
>>21992109>There are not millions of dark Africans pouring through Ellis Island and occupying an entire social class of cities like the former.Oh no no no no
>>21992587https://share.google/Idl4b2CgHl346YWvg
Nando’s (afro-portuguese) has done pretty well worldwideBut like another anon said Africa is a huge place. Ethiopian food had a brief moment of being “hip.” But a lot of the subcontinent is on basic sustenance level, you’re not going to see ugali become a popular food fad any day soonWest african, especially ghana/nigeria and that general region has some potential, both because of their large diaspora in the yookay and because their food is at least slightly more interesting. But a lot of it is very basic, rice with some stewed fish or meat, and some kind of pulse. It’s not bad food, I went to an african wedding and liked the flavors, but not exactly ripe for universal popularity. Maybe there can be a slop bowl chain with jollof rice and stewed fish that the urbanoids can all fawn over for $25 a bowl.
>>21992511at the time when africa slavery was a thing italy didnt even have tomatoes so what the fuck are you talking about
>>21992684>at the time when africa slavery was a thing italy didnt even have tomatoesAmerican edukashion
>>21992750>esl reading comprehension
>>21992750i'm not american dipshit
>>21992102Continent filled with war-torn poverty shitholes that have no food isnt exactly an appealing restaurant for someone to want to go to.
>>21992784You’re still a retard.
>>21992346yeah, thats only in the american southwest and even then mostly in louisiana, youre not going to find a lot of cajun or creole food the farther you get away from there, let alone the rest of the world, whereas everyone and their mother is replicating carbonara or chow mein
>>21994617>thats only in the american southwest and even then mostly in louisianayes and the caribbean and latin america. and african food influenced far more than just louisiana. southern food is heavily influenced by soul food which itself came from african cooking. pigeonholing it as "just cajun" is dishonest
>>21994625okay, that doesnt change the fact that their foods arent international, you not going to find whatever flavor of african diaspora foods in china or europe
>>21994642if france and uk and belgium and netherlands and spain and portugal and sweden arent part of europe
>>21992338Mmm gumbo. Haven't had proper Jamabalaya though.
>>21994642You can get popeyes in a lot of places now.
Several of their signature dishes rely on a super specific ingredient that is completely unavailable anywhere else. Ex. good luck locally sourcing egusi seeds (no, pumpkin seeds are not a good substitute) or bitterleaf outside Africa (and importing is quite uneconomical).
>go to ethiopian place>everything tastes like injera
Africa is too broad, there's are a lot of countries there that have different cuisine.
>>21992102because like most brown person food there's regional disputes over "who makes it the best" it's a miracle spaniards were able to spread their stuff without constant rivalry.
>>21992102Because for a "cuisine" to arise, you need a modicum of political stability in your country, and having enough resources to actually be deliberate in your cooking ingredients and not "I'll put whatever i can find in this large pot and boil it"Case in point, ethiopains have quite an old civilization, which was relatively affluent and stable for some time, so we know what ethiopain food is. South African food is also known, since they have a functioning government and country that's not starvingBut can you tell me what people in Chad eat? Somalia? Zimbabwe?
>>21992109Most African food is just a poor imitation of Mediterranean and middle eastern food and suck.
