Part of traveling well is not only taking our own interests seriously by immersing ourselves in the people, places, and stories but also experiencing new flavors and dishes we have never tried before. The tenet of travel is just that uncovering and experiencing unfamiliar territories and sometimes, a place just speaks to you, opening your mind and your palate to a variety of experiences you’ve never encountered. Considering Africa is the continent that can arguably claim to have invented cooking based on the findings of Francesco Berna, an archaeologist at Boston University in Massachusetts, and his colleagues found ash of burnt grass, leaves, brush, and bone fragments in sediments 30 meters inside the Wonderwerk Cave in the Northern Cape province. The cave is one of the oldest known sites of human habitation, showing traces of having lived almost two million years ago. This arguably makes sense since Africa is the birthplace of humankind.[…]