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Chef Dispatches: Senegal

By Food & Wine
Updated March 08, 2017
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Exclusive highlights from chef Sean Brock's trip to Senegal, where he traces the origin of low-country dishes like hoppin’ John and gumbo.
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Prepping vegetables for thiébou yap, with Senegalese home cook Fati Ly.

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Wood-fired squab with mustard onions at Seoul II.

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Akara fritters with tomato compote at Ly’s apartment.

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Eating thiébou yap with my hands, seated on the floor.

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The local Senegalese beer that everyone drinks.

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A grill fashioned from an old oil drum at the night fish market on the beach.

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Peanuts roasted in the sand on Gorée Island.

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Fish-head fritters at Fati Ly’s home.

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Soupe kandia, the roots of Southern gumbo.

  • Recipe: Senegalese-Style Seafood Gumbo

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Panoramic view of Gorée Island.

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Café Touba, a street vendor in Dakar.

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A taste of America in West Africa (note how beat up the bottle is).

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Lamb butchers on the streets of Dakar.

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Rice hanging in the kitchen for good fortune.

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Lamb parts cooking on the streets, at Dakar’s lamb market.

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