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is a Nigerian essayist and author. Her first book, Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex, and the Nigerian Taste Buds , won the John Avery Prize in the André Simon Book Awards 2016.
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is a Nigerian essayist and author. Her first book, Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex, and the Nigerian Taste Buds , won the John Avery Prize in the André Simon Book Awards 2016.
YEMISI ARIBISALA
FEBRUARY 18 2022
YEMISI ARIBISALA•FEBRUARY 18 2022
Author of Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds, Yemisi Aribisala, believes there are numerous reasons we enjoy food, beyond ingredients and social conditioning: ‘things like memory of how we ate certain things in childhood and for so long that we want it just like that. Sometimes we attach a dish to a beloved parent or lover.’