As I mentioned yesterday in the first of a series of post I’m doing on Asian influences on African and African foodways, Eggplant originated in the Far East. Egg plant is indigenous to India and from there it spread throughout South East Asia. The first record of its cultivation as food goes back to fifth century China. There is a debate over who introduced it to Africa—the Portuguese, Indonesian traders or Arab traders. However it’s clear that eggplant arrived in Africa before the Middle Ages and before it spread to Europe and specifically Italy, the country most often associated with the plant. Eggplant arrived and grew in colonial Southern British colonies as early as 1737 with some insisting that the Atlantic slave facilitated its introduction to the Americas from West Africa. In North America, Africans introduced eggplant to Native American foodways, “but many southerners looked on them as poisonous until the twentieth century,” writes Southern Historian John Gray Taylor. Below I have links to eggplant recipes
Eggplant and Shrimp recipe from Ghana: http://recipeisland.com/blog1/recipe-island/ghana-recipes/ghana-sesew-froe-shrimp-and-eggplant/
Southern cornbread scalloped eggplant recipe: http://www.grouprecipes.com/16933/southern-cornbread-scalloped-eggplant.html
Pakistani Aaloo Baingan (Eggplant and potato in a curry sauce) recipe http://www.angelfire.com/country/fauziaspakistan/aaloobaingan.html
Various eggplant recipes and cooking tips: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/collections/healthy_eggplant_recipes
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