Jungle Kitchen Editorial

8 Articles Published
The Original Upcyclers

We meet the Sundanese of West Java, Indonesia to better understand how the byproducts of tofu and peanut oil production are upcycled into a highly bioavailable protein.

The Land That Gave Us Quinoa

The story of the Indigenous cultures of the Altiplano and their battle with the West over quinoa.

The Resistance Tasting Menu: Afro-Caribbean Cuisine

For our very first Resistance Tasting Menu, we’ve put together 14 courses highlighting the unheralded Afro-Caribbean cuisine.

The Flower That Bites Back

Examining the culinary mistake 19th-century European botanists made by treating torch ginger as a decoration.

Beware of Colonizers Bearing Gifts

How a collection of starchy roots became part of the West African cultural firmament.

The Islands that Bought Manhattan

The story of nutmeg, cloves, and the regenerative agricultural practices that helped them thrive.

The Breadfruit Heist

Hollywood’s romanticized epic of colonial misadventure isn’t the full story. We dig deep to find out what the mutiny on the HMS Bounty was really about.

Cooking in the Tropics

I’ve been living and traveling in the tropics for about 13 years – in and…