{"id":66382,"date":"2014-02-09T22:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fonio-the-grain-that-would-defeat-quinoa-as-king-among-foodies\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T05:19:24","slug":"fonio-the-grain-that-would-defeat-quinoa-as-king-among-foodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fonio-the-grain-that-would-defeat-quinoa-as-king-among-foodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonio: the grain that would defeat quinoa as king among foodies"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA Senegalese restaurateur and former Iron Chef contestant wants to bring the West African grain to American consumers\u201cI don\u2019t want Americans knowing about fonio,\u201d says Fatoumata Fadiga, sternly shaking her head. Fadiga, an immigrant from Guinea in West Africa, stands in a matching flowered shirt and skirt in the back room of her New York beauty supply shop after a lunch of fonio with stewed chicken and okra puree. Fonio will be the next quinoa in America, if Pierre Thiam has his way. The chef and restauranteur has big plans for the little grain. In 2008 Thiam published a Senegalese cookbook \u2013 Yolele!, which translates to \u201clet the good times roll\u201d in the Wolof language \u2013 so that western cooks could easily prepare Senegalese dishes. He even battled celebrity chef Bobby Flay over papaya (and lost) on the garish, dry ice fog infused Iron Chef show, a show whose brashness is an odd fit for Thiam\u2019s affable, calm demeanor. Since the late 1990s he\u2019s been cooking high-end Pan-African influenced food for his catering company, serving a range of clients from the Clinton Foundation to Mos Def. His next project is fonio. Fonio is a kind of millet that has a nutty flavor \u2013 a cross between couscous and quinoa in both appearance and texture. It has been cultivated in West Africa for thousands of years, and is a favorite in salads, stews, porridges and even ground into flour. It\u2019s gluten-free and nutritious because of two amino acids, cystine and methionine, which make it a favorite to be baked into bread for diabetics, those who are gluten intolerant or have celiac disease. It is, in short, the perfect new grain for juice-cleansing, diet-conscious yogis \u2026 if they can get their hands on it. Thiam, a chef and entrepreneur from Senegal living in New York City, is preparing to import fonio by the end of 2014 for mainstream US consumption, working with a women-owned and -operated collective in Senegal near the Mali and Guinea border. Fonio will start its US journey, as so many immigrants do, in New York. In the city\u2019s Little Senegal neighborhood, you can order fonio \u00e1 la sauce maf\u00e9, peanut beef stew with fonio. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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