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January 23, 2026 · 3 min read
What I Learned from Cooking My Way Across a Continent | Dieuveil Malonga | TED
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- 1My name is Dieuveil Malonga and I'm a chef.
- 2That journey took two years of traveling across Africa, where I learned about food, culture, and the continent's history.
- 3What I discovered is that there's no single "African cuisine" - it's country cuisines.
- 4Spice is very important for me.
- 5In different African countries, people don't just eat - we celebrate food.
Overview
My name is Dieuveil Malonga and I'm a chef. After working in fine-dining restaurants around the world - from Paris to Germany, the US, Japan, and Thailand - I realized I wanted to know more about Pan-African cuisine. So I took the initiative to go back to the continent. I wanted to learn. I wanted to go back to school, to the grandmother school.
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