Jul 06 2021 54 mins
On this new episode of " The Wave" we will be discussing how African cuisine is slowly shifting to gastronomy with a new generation of chefs promoting and developing a new identity of African cuisine.
Host : Joan Murielle Yombo, is a media and communication professional, specialized in African territories. She manages communication campaigns for 25 countries in Africa within Canal International. In love with Africa stories, she created LE MIAMSHOW in 2019, a culinary media that militates for a better valorization of Afro cuisines and their actors.
Speakers :
• Tola Akerele: Nigerian interior designer Tola Akerele is a woman of many talents. With a successful career in investment banking behind her, 16 years ago, she decided to shift gear and move from London to Lagos. She now works as an established interior designer and hotelier, and most recently launched a cookbook dedicated to Nigerian cuisine entitled The Orishirishi cookbook.
• Ire Hassan – Odukale : As a restaurant Director, he opened IKOYI with his friend, Chef Jeremy Chan in July 2017 . Located in London’s historic St James’s, Ikoyi is a unique combination of the two men’s backgrounds – the bold tastes and rich flavours of Ire’s childhood in West Africa and Jeremy’s chef experience in the great kitchens of Noma, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and Hibiscus. Together they have created an unrivalled dining experience with a truly innovative cuisine that marries an intricate balance of flavour and spice with a fearless enjoyment of the tastes and produce of the season.
• Victor Okunowo: Victor Okunowo is the head Chef at London’s Talking Drum, a West African fine – dining restaurant new to the South West of the capital. He took part in Masterchef in 2020, a culinary TV show broadcasted on BBC, and he was one of ten semi finalists in the competition.
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