The English Naval officer, explorer, and opponent of the African slave trade, William Allen (1792-1864) traveled to West Africa in July of 1841. Speaking of food production on the southeast end of the coast of Liberia he observed the Krumen people cultivated principally rice, corn, plantains, and they fished. These ingredients represented central components of most meals in addition to vegetables, herbs, spices, palm oil, and occasional meat as seasoning. My first job out of graduate school was in the history Department at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 2000 to 2003. My department chair was a Liberian itched for ever in my memory for bringing in Liberian dishes for lunch which he would warm up in the office microwave located in the same room where are department faculty mail boxes were located. He married a southern African American and I often wondered who made his Liberian soul food? Here are recipes for palava sauce. This is a classic West African soul food dish made in Liberia and other parts of the region.
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