Nigerian food

The biggest kitchen in West Africa, and the loudest. Rice cooked in pepper and tomato, soups thickened with melon seed or okra, and meat rubbed in groundnut and chilli over open fire. Nigerian food is built on a handful of bases that every household argues about the correct version of.

If you have never eaten it, start with jollof rice or suya. If you have, you already know which one your family makes better than everyone else.