Podcast
Uncooked Women
Episodes
- How Nigerian Hospitality Brands Are Creating Homegrown Fine Dining w/ Chef Wu and Chef Vee
Before Nigerian food can take its place on the world stage, there's work to do at home. Nearly 70% of food shipped abroad gets rejected over poor trade facilitation, and 60-65% of…
- From Food Blog to Parts Unknown: How Atim Ukoh (Afrolems) is Preserving and Innovating Nigerian Food
How did a food blog started to promote a small business end up on Anthony Bourdain's radar? Food innovator Atim Ukoh, known as Afrolems, shares how her blog became a launchpad for…
- What 10 years as a Nigerian Founder Taught Chef Nkesi Enyioha of HSE Gourmet About Authenticity
10 years ago, Chef Nkesi Enyioha launched HSE Gourmet, a rare Nigerian-owned, woman-built restaurant serving gourmet comfort food inspired by her travels, from aromatic pho to a he…
- Iru vs Seasoning Cubes, Post-Harvest Loss, Female Farmers, & Sustainable Food Systems w/Chef Moyo
Why did an imported seasoning cube become a kitchen staple across West Africa while Iru aka dawdawa, the umami-rich fermented locust bean used across West African cuisine, never go…
- ‘That’s Chef Wu, To You’ with Wunmi Durosinmi-Etti a.k.a Chef Wu
Chef Wu keeps it spicy in and out of the kitchen. After running a successful Afro-Caribbean food catering business in London, she moved to Lagos to start Oùnję Co. — her hospitalit…
- ‘Fonio is For the Girls’ with Cobi-Jane Akinrele
Cobi-Jane Akinrele wants Nigerian female farmers to get paid. She’s the founder of The Aké Collective, a health and wellness company that’s making fonio more accessible. After leav…
- ‘Let Her Cook!’ with Jumoke Toyobo a.k.a Chef TYB
Jumoke Toyobo makes a delicious garri sorbet. Known in the kitchen as Chef TYB, she’s a private chef and restaurant consultant who serves immersive dining experiences with menus th…
- ‘In the Supper Club, We All Fam’ with Funmilade Taiwo a.k.a Chef FT
Inside Chef FT’s Toronto apartment, you’ll find him serving guests fusions like banga risotto with sea snails, and garri tostadas finished with a honey bean puree. What started as…
- ‘Return of the Quack’ with Mosun Aderinokun
Mosun Aderinokun, and her elder brother Dare, are the brains and bartenders behind Quacktails - a mobile cocktail bar and delivery service that’s refining the classics with fresh s…
- ‘The Camera Eats!’ with Anjola Awosika
Anjola Awosika has one of the most mouthwatering Instagram accounts in Nigeria. If you’ve eaten it, Anjola has most likely shot it. He tells Nigerian food stories through photograp…
- Unsettled Beef
Ada and Lamisko are officially back from sabbatical! Their kitchen, now under new management, presents the menu for this episode: Nigerian-Kazakh-Surinamese fusion origin stories,…
- Colonial Cubes
When Nestle and Unilever introduced Maggi and Knorr bouillon cubes to West Africa almost 70 years ago, they took over an informal umami market run mostly by women. Before bouillon,…
- The Streets Aren't Safe...From Inflation
In Nigeria, street food means tasty portable snacks like Àkàrà and Suya, but it also means bowls of pepper soup and loaded plates of rice and stew served from the many bukas that c…
- The Real Jollof War: Senegal vs France
The West African jollof wars are friendly internet banter about an umami-rich rice dish beloved across the region. When we’re not fighting about who makes it best, we’re reluctantl…
- Long Live the Bread King
Amos Shackleford initially arrived in Lagos from Jamaica to work on the railroads, but he would go on to make Nigerian food history. When Shackleford started his bakery from Ebute…
- Beer vs Craft Beer
Every bottle of Budweiser or Heineken is made to taste the exact same wherever you’re drinking around the world…and that gets boring. Cue, Craft Beer & Craft Breweries — smaller br…
- How Food Made The #EndSARS Protests
During the #EndSARS movement, several small businesses paused their day-to-day operations to feed thousands of people for FREE. On this episode we reflect on the anniversary of the…
Lagos Restaurants: A Story of MigrationOn this episode, the uncooked women dig into one of their favourite things - restaurants that provide food they didn’t have to cook! We head to the Syrian Club, a restaurant and so…
- SEASON TRAILER Introducing: The Uncooked Women Podcast
We’re back baby! It’s a brand new season of connecting the food we didn’t cook to just about everything. Join us as we eat our way through Nigerias rich gastronomy and connect the…
