GHANAIAN FOOD
As with any culture, food is central to Ghanaian life regardless of where you are in the world. Chop bars can be found on every corner of Ghana's towns and in some major cities abroad too, like London and New York.
From fufu to banku and gari fotor, everyone has a favourite dish and every region has its own specialties. Here is our list of Ghanaian food, tasty recipes to try and a guide to food by region:
| Fufu | Tuo Zafi | Tsintsinga | Red Red | Fried yam |
| Banku | Waakye | Stew | Kelewele/Tatale | Fresh pepper sauce |
| Kenkey | Jollof | Shito | Gari | Akepeteshie |
| Omo Tuo | Rice | Soups | Bofrot | Sobolo |
The main dishes in Accra include kenkey with hot pepper and fried
fish, banku with fried fish and pepper or with okro or groundnut soup,
red red or yo-ko-gari, bean stew, fried plantain or tatale, omo tuo
(rice balls) served with palm or groundnut soup. A Sunday afternoon
special is fried yam with chofi (turkey tails) with hot, fresh pepper
sauce, kebabs (meat of liver doused in spicy powder then grilled). Local
drinks include asana or maize beer, palm wine, coconut juice and
akpeteshie or palm wine.
It is said that if an Ashanti man does not eat fufu, then he has not
eaten that day. Fufu with light soup and smoked fish or groundnut soup,
and spicy kebabs sold by the roadside as well as banku
and grilled tilapia are all staples of the Ashanti diet.
The main dishes are akyeke (cassava-based, similar to couscous)
served with avocado, fufu and light soup with mushroom or snails.
Popular drinks are coconut juice, palm wine and akpeteshie.The main dishes include fante dorkunu (kenkey with fish and gravy), fufu and palmnut soup, jollof rice, fante fante (palm oil stew with small fresh fish) and tatale (friend plantain cakes), ampesi and oto (mashed yam).
The regional dishes include akple with okro soup, fufe with palmnut
soup, abolo with shrimps and one man thousand, banku with okro stew or
pepper, red red and fried plantain. Volta tilapia is a speciality and
can be found both by the roadside and in the riverside hotels along the
Volta.- Brong Ahafo Region
Tuo zaafi, known as TZ, omo tuo or rice ball with groundnut or green leaves soup, beans or cowpea with sheanut oil and pepper called tubaani, koko or millet/corn porridge eaten with koose (fried bean cakes). Beverages include pito, a locally brewed beer made from millet, zom kroom or toasted millet flour in water and fula mashed in water, milk, ginger and sugar.
Tuo Zafi , omo tuo or rice balls with groundnut soup or green leaves soup, beans, and cowpea or tubaani koko with koose . Beverages include pito and zom kroom.
The Eastern Region is a diverse region and this is reflected in its cuisine – everything is eaten here from fufu to omo tuo to tsintsinga.
See Upper West Region above.
How to make Ghanaian fufu and light soup
Fufu as said above is a local dish common to almost every tribe in Ghana. My girlfriend Dorothy likes fufu a lot. so i therefore decided to share with you how she prepares it, since we are talking about Ghanaian dishes. She taught me this recipe, and it was great.Light Soup: We used chicken but you can use beef instead.
Ingredients (quantity depends on how much you want to make)
meat or chicken, fresh tomatoes, onions, garlic and ginger (optional), 2 maggi cubes, salt, all purpose season, curry, scotch bonnets, bell peppers
- Season the chicken or meat and boil it in a saucepan
- while the chicken is boiling, in another saucepan put water, tomatoes, chopped onions, bell peppers, garlic and ginger
- boil till the tomatoes start to peel
- pour the contents into a blender and blend till smooth
- using a sieve, pour the content from the blender into saucepa
- leave to boil and season
Fufu: We are going to use the indigenous method, we need cassava and plantain.
1. Put water in a saucepan and heat till it boils a little.
2. Peel and wash your cassava and plantain.3. Now put the peeled cassava and plantain into saucepan with boiling water.
4. it should be ready after 15 minutes and pour the water away from it.
5. Get your mortar and pistil ready.
6. Pound the plantain first and turn until completely smooth and elastic in texture.
This might take two people: one to turn and the other to pound. remove it
and place it in a bowl
7. Now, do the same for the cassava, then add the plantain to it. continue to
pound both and turn until completely smooth and elastic in texture
8. Make sure there are no lumps in it, Shape the fufu into balls and serve
immediately with light soup.
You can use the Tropiway plantain fufu flour.
- Put water into kettle and heat until it boils.
- Put 1 cup of Fufu flour into saucepan.
- Pour boiling water into saucepan on top of Fufu
- Place saucepan over medium fire and stir with wooden spoon until smooth
- To thicken Fufu, add more Fufu flour to the saucepan
- To soften the Fufu, add more boiling water to the saucepan
- Knead Fufu thoroughly until a smooth consistency is achieved
40 Interesting and Fun Facts about Fashion
1. The word ‘jeans’ comes from the cotton pants worn by “Genes,” the local term for Genoan sailors.
2. The average American owns 7 pairs of blue jeans.
3. Initially, both men and women wore togas in Rome, but after the 2nd century BC, respectable women wore stolas and prostitutes were required to wear a toga.
4. The Ancient Greeks exercised naked. In fact, this is where our word “gymnasium” comes from; γυμνός (gymnos) means naked in Ancient and Modern Greek.
5. The four major fashion capitals of the world are New York, London, Milan, and Paris. Each city holds fashion shows twice, in February and September.
6. It was not acceptable for women to wear shorts in public until World War 2.
7. The first fashion magazine was published in Germany in 1586.
8. American households spend about 3.8% of their income on clothing, which equates to about $1,700 per person. By comparison, Americans spent 11% of their income on clothes in 1950.
9. The price of clothing has decreased by 8.5% since 1992, even when adjusted for inflation.
10. Over a lifetime, an American woman will spend $125,000 on clothes. 3,000 items—271 pairs of shoes, 185 dresses, and 145 bags.
11. The five most common clothing materials are linen, cotton, polyester, and rayon.
12. Cotton is the most widely used clothing material, but it only became common in mid-1800s, when Eli Whitney’s cotton gin made it easy to separate the cotton fibers from the seeds.
13. Evidence for the first clothes dates somewhere between 100,000 to 500,000 years ago.
14. Simple needles made out of animal bone first appeared about 30,000 years ago.
15. The bikini was named after the island Bikini Atoll, where the US military was testing its bombs in World War 2. It was so named because its creator, Louis Réard, belived the revealing suit would create a shock like that of the atomic bomb.
16. Women’s nominal clothing sizes have increased in physical size over the years in a phenomenon known as “vanity sizing.” A size 8 dress with a 32-inch bust in 1967 is now considered a size 0 today.
17. 10-25% of Western women don’t wear a bra, and 75-85% of women who do wear an incorrect size.
18. Men’s shirts button on the right, and women’s on the left.
Portrait of the children of Philip III of Spain by Bartolomé González y Serrano, 1612
19. Both the pencil skirt and the A-line skirt were designed by Frenchman Christian Dior, who is singlehandedly credited with inspiring 1950s fashion.
20. Children dressed identically to adults until the mid-1800s, when the concept of children’s clothing took off.
21. What Americans consider “tuxedos” are called “dinner jackets” in Great Britain, as the word tuxedo itself refers to the white version of the suit jacket in British English.
22. Dresses and skirts are commonly seen as women’s clothing in the West, but in other parts of the world, men wear them as frequently as women do.
23. More than 2 billion t-shirts are sold each year.
24. A person’s social rank and profession in the Medieval Ages was represented by the color of their clothing. The nobility wore red, peasants wore brown and gray, and merchants, bankers, and gentry wore green.
25. In Rome, purple clothing was exclusively reserved for emperors and magistrates.
Oldest leather shoe, National Geographic
26. The earliest known shoes are sandals that date back to approximately 7,000 B.C. However, bone analysis of early humans suggest humans began wearing shoes as early as 40,000 years ago.
27. In Arab culture, shoes are considered dirty because they touch the ground and cover the lowest part of the body, the foot. It is considered offensive to show one’s shoe sole, and throwing your shoe at someone is an extremely grave insult.
28. The difference between two nominal clothing sizes is approximately ten to fifteen pounds.
29. Standard women’s clothes are designed to fit women between 5’4 and 5’8 tall.
30. One silk cocoon produces an average of 600 to 900 meters of silk filaments, but it takes four to eight pieces to make one strand of silk thread. In all, it takes about 30,000 silkworms to produce 12 pounds of raw silk.
31. Eyeliner became popular after its discovery in King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the 1920s.
32. It was once taboo to wear black unless one was in mourning. Victorian widows were expected to wear black mourning clothes for two years after their husbands’ deaths.
Chinese lotus shoes
33. Until around the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese culture regarded small feet as beautiful, and it was a common practice to bind women’s feet from an early age to keep their feet small. This practice was limited to the wealthy, however, as the feet of women who underwent this procedure were so deformed that they had difficulty walking.
34. The fashion industry generates an average revenue of $20 billion each year.
35. A Sneakerhead is someone who collects shoes.
36. Nowadays, kimonos are worn only in very formal occasions in Japan except by sumo wrestlers, who are required to wear traditional Japanese clothes when in public.
37. For all the hoopla made about Fashion Week, the average fashion show is only about 10 minutes long.
38. Vintage clothing refers to clothing made between 20 and 100 years ago, and retro refers to recently made clothing that is designed to resemble the style of another period.
39. It became more socially acceptable for women to wear shorts during World War 2, which introduced fabric rationing and forced women to take on more masculine jobs.
40. The skirt is the second oldest piece of clothing, outdated only by the loincloth.
source: scratch hard
12 Shocking Sex Facts
Masters and Johnson revolutionized sex research in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Here what we're learning about sex now.
1. Cycles of light affect our fertility
Women used to menstruate during the new moon (when it’s dark at night) and ovulate during a full moon (when it’s light). Now, in a world full of artificial lighting and bright screens, women are not as in tune with the connection between their biology and nature. Some have tried “lunaception,” altering the lights in their bedrooms based on the moon lighting to change their ovulation.
2. Women can get pregnant five to eight days after having sex
Studies have shown that some sperm can live in the cervical mucus crypt before the egg is actually fertilized for anywhere from five to eight days after sex.
3. Wearing high heels can negatively affect a woman’s orgasm
Certain high-end shoe brands developed the arch in their high-heeled shoes to approximate the arch in a woman’s pelvis when she is having an orgasm. The heels create a contraction in the pelvic floor, which is problematic because the pelvic floor then cannot contract further during orgasm. “An orgasm is usually like going from zero to 60,” explains Fromberg. “If you’re already at 55 [from wearing heels], you’re not going to have a full experience.”
4. Orgasms can make women more creative
Studies have shown that orgasms can make women more confident, productive and creative. And it’s a feedback loop—women achieve fuller orgasms when they are being creative.
5. Birth control pills dampen the libido
Any hormonal contraception has that psychological side effect. Sometimes women even have trouble conceiving once they’re off the pill because while they may have been attracted to their partner on the pill, they’re not actually compatible with each other biochemically without the extra hormones.
6. Sitting in chairs can arouse women
Pudendal nerves, underneath the buttox and the sitting bones, feed arousal tissues (in the vagina, clitoris, anus, etc.). Sitting in a certain kind of chair pressing on the pudendal nerves in a certain way can lead to sexual arousal.
7. …But it can also dampen their orgasms
On the other hand, sitting in chairs for most of the day shortens the pelvic floor and psoas muscles—muscles which are essential to a full-body orgasm. When these muscles are tight from sitting too much, women find it harder to achieve a great orgasm.
8. Women have three erogenous zones
The clitoris, the G Spot, AND the opening of the cervix. Some argue nipples belong on that list too.
9. Nerve endings are distributed differently in every woman’s vagina
Like a snowflake, each woman is unique in that her nerve endings are distributed in her genitalia differently than anyone else. That means, every woman needs to employ slightly different methods to achieve orgasm.
10. The pulsations a woman feels during orgasm are actually her uterus trying to gather sperm
Round ligaments that end in the labia majora “rock the uterus back and forth during orgasm so that the cervix has the opportunity to potentially scoop semen up that may have pooled in the back of the vagina to enhance fertility,” says Fromberg.
11. Being well hydrated leads to better orgasms
Because the body is mostly fluid, being hydrated enhances people’s ability to achieve orgasm.
12. All woman can achieve orgasm
Almost no woman was born unable to achieve an orgasm. “Women have the innate machinery programmed to have orgasms,” Fromberg explains. “But not everybody learns how to use that machinery well.”
SEX IS A NATURAL ESSENCE OF LIFE
source: TIME
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