Lunch Money: A Map of Choices at Yagg Sii Tenn

Lunch Money: A Map of Choices at Yagg Sii Tenn

When I walk into Yagg Sii Tenn, an African restaurant in Apex that shares a building with an urgent care center, the dining room is empty, so I take a few minutes to look around. There’s a lot to take in. Tables and chairs are painted with flags from African countries—a visual representation of the restaurant’s pan-African approach rather than focusing on just one cuisine. One corner of the restaurant has pillows on the ground and a sign invitin…

Culinary delights from all over Africa

Let’s travel northbound and visit different regions in our special continent, each one boasting its own unique flavours and stories.  Food throughout Africa is as diverse as the grains of sand around the world. In our research for this issue, it’s become clear that not only do the ingredients, flavours and dishes change throughout countries, but across regions, biomes, cultures as well as communities and homes. Differences in climate, terrain, f…