On an unseasonably warm October evening, a group of Sierra Leonean men sat around a communal chafing dish of rice and cassava-leaf stew at Tasty African restaurant in Southwest Philadelphia and ...

Tilla Kamara knows that not everyone can travel to West Africa every time they want cassava leaf stew or grilled goat meat, but she hopes that her restaurant, K's Kitchen, will be the next best thing.

In this country, the question of how to round out a meal of meat and vegetables with a starch usually leads straight to the potato. But in other regions of the world, particularly Latin America, ...

“Little Africa,” they call it, the stretch of Woodland Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia that’s home to one of the largest West African populations in America. Home to bubbling crocks of cassava leaf ...