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Chicken yassa (poulet yassa or yassa ganar in French and Wolof, one of the languages of Senegal) was a linchpin dish for me.

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Aug 25, 2021
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Excerpted with permission from Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection by Lindsay Gardner

Chicken yassa (poulet yassa or yassa ganar in French and Wolof, one of the languages of Senegal) was a linchpin dish for me. I first tasted it in 1972 on my first trip to the African continent, and it was indeed love at firs…

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