Cookbook Club: Zoe's Ghana Kitchen

Love to eat? Love to cook? Join us for a monthly cookbook feast! Each month, the group picks recipes from a single book. Each participant chooses a recipe from the book and prepares it for the group's meeting. At our meeting, we eat the dishes we've all prepared and talk about what inspired us to make them.

In January we'll cook from Zoe's Ghana Kitchen by Zoe Adjonyoh. 

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR

Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen Cookbook is my love letter to Ghana. It’s an introduction to the life, culture, and kitchens of my people. In the cookbook, I’ll introduce you to Ghanaian ingredients, flavours, and styles of cooking and give you a cheat sheet, a playlist (on Spotify), and a kitchen companion as your guide to the ingredients and flavors from across West Africa and how to use them not just in traditional Ghanaian cooking but also bringing the spice and robust healthy ingredients into your everyday meal planning!

Remix classic Ghanaian dishes for the modern kitchen in a cookbook that is "bright, bold, and bursting with flavor" (Bryant Terry) and “provides a new perspective and a sense of wonder for Ghanaian cooking” (Sicily Sierra) 

Celebrated cook and writer Zoe Adjonyoh passionately believes we are on the cusp of an African food revolution. First published to widespread acclaim in the United Kingdom, Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen began as a pop-up restaurant in London featuring dishes such as Pan-Roasted Cod with Grains of Paradise, Nkruma (Okra) Tempura, Cubeb-Spiced Shortbread, and Coconut and Cassava Cake. Soon those dishes evolved into this tempting and celebratory cookbook, newly revised and updated for American cooks.

Join Zoe as she shares the beauty of Ghana’s markets, culture, and cuisine, and tells the evocative story of using these tastes and food traditions to navigate her own identity. Whether you are familiar with the delights of Ghanaian cuisine or new to the bold flavors of West Africa, this book contains inspiration for extraordinary home cooking, in dishes such as: 

Simple Fried Plantains, Red Red Stew, Red Snapper and Yam Croquettes, Bofrot Doughnuts, Nkatsenkwan (Peanut Butter Stew with Lamb), Jollof Fried Chicken, Ghana-fied Caesar Salad, and more.

With flexible recipes for hearty salads, quick and wholesome dinners, flavorful feasts, and much more, Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen brings truly exciting and flavor-packed dishes into your kitchen. This is contemporary African food for simply everyone.

The Cookbook Club meets in the Community Room at the South Burlington Public Library on the first Tuesday of the month. Copies of the book will be available for browsing recipes at South Burlington Public Library for a month leading up to the meeting. To attend, let us know what you plan to cook by signing up at the Circulation Desk or by emailing sbplprograms@SouthBurlingtonVT.gov.

All are welcome!