You may be asking, what on this bountiful blue planet is fufu?

It’s a staple of the Ghanaian diet, and other parts of Africa besides, that involves mashing boiled vegetables–plantain, cassava or yam–in a huge wooden mortar with a 4-foot long blunt-ended pole hewn from a tree until the vegetables become a sticky pale ball. It takes two people. It takes a long time. (Sounds like a relationship). Continue reading →