Your Waakye Is Not Making You Fat. Here Is What Is.
Somewhere along the way, we decided that looking good meant saying goodbye to banku. We started believing that the road to weight loss was paved with lettuce and sadness. If you want to be slim, you have to abandon the food that reminds you of your mother's kitchen.
That is a lie. And it is a lie that has made a lot of us miserable.
The truth is harder to hear but easier to live with: your comfort food is rarely the enemy. The real problem is hiding in the pot next to it.
The Innocent Plate
Let us look at waakye. Rice and beans. If you wrote that down on a diet chart, any nutritionist in the world would nod their head. Fiber from the beans. Energy from the rice. It is a complete meal. The same goes for tuo zaafi. Fermented corn. Easy to digest. Or kenkey. Fermented corn dough. ...