Africa Cookbook Project: A Digital Database for Culinary Writing

Betumi is  a Web Site that aims to connect “scholars, professionals and others who delight in African cuisine and food history” launches Africa Cookbook Project - an archive of African culinary writing. Fran Osseo-Asare runs the site, she offers some insight into the project:

At TEDGLOBAL in Arusha, Tanzania in June, 2007, we launched the “Africa Cookbook Project,” whose goal is to archive African culinary writing and make it widely available on the continent and beyond. A database is being developed and copies of hundreds of cookbooks are already being catalogued at BETUMI: The African Culinary Network. Google has offered assistance in eventually digitizing some of the information.

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