The more handling of a wide variety of food that one can manage the more open one’s mind and palate. - Yemisi Aribisala

The pandemic has forced a balance in the nation’s perspective where food writing is concerned.

We don’t have a Nigerian culture of cooking and monologuing. It is coming along now with social media and Nigerian food celebrities.

In Nigeria, we have given ourselves no other option than the institutional use of the English language. We haven’t, in addition, provided the necessity and the resources of mastering the use of multiple languages. And that opportunity is so pertinent.