Episodes
April 11, 2025
‘That’s Chef Wu, To You’ with Wunmi Durosinmi-Etti a.k.a Chef Wu
Chef Wu keeps it spicy in and out of the kitchen. After running a successful Afro-Caribbean food catering business in London, she moved to Lagos to start Oùnję Co. — her hospitality consultancy firm. Braised ox cheek pepper s...
April 2, 2025
‘Fonio is For the Girls’ with Cobi-Jane Akinrele
Cobi-Jane Akinrele wants Nigerian female farmers to get paid. She’s the founder of The Aké Collective, a health and wellness company that’s making fonio more accessible. After leaving the Cambridge countryside for Lagos, she ...
March 6, 2025
‘Let Her Cook!’ with Jumoke Toyobo a.k.a Chef TYB
Jumoke Toyobo makes a delicious garri sorbet. Known in the kitchen as Chef TYB, she’s a private chef and restaurant consultant who serves immersive dining experiences with menus that match her diverse culinary background. Fro...
Feb. 18, 2025
‘In the Supper Club, We All Fam’ with Funmilade Taiwo a.k.a Chef FT
Inside Chef FT’s Toronto apartment, you’ll find him serving guests fusions like banga risotto with sea snails, and garri tostadas finished with a honey bean puree. What started as a barbecuing gig evolved into Lamuren Inc., h...
Feb. 9, 2025
‘Return of the Quack’ with Mosun Aderinokun
Mosun Aderinokun, and her elder brother Dare, are the brains and bartenders behind Quacktails - a mobile cocktail bar and delivery service that’s refining the classics with fresh syrups and seasonal produce, while also mixing...
Feb. 2, 2025
‘The Camera Eats!’ with Anjola Awosika
Anjola Awosika has one of the most mouthwatering Instagram accounts in Nigeria. If you’ve eaten it, Anjola has most likely shot it. He tells Nigerian food stories through photography and film and is elevating West African foo...
Jan. 27, 2025
Unsettled Beef
Ada and Lamisko are officially back from sabbatical! Their kitchen, now under new management, presents the menu for this episode: Nigerian-Kazakh-Surinamese fusion origin stories, lightly roasted ex-business partners, and the...
Aug. 25, 2023
Colonial Cubes
When Nestle and Unilever introduced Maggi and Knorr bouillon cubes to West Africa almost 70 years ago, they took over an informal umami market run mostly by women. Before bouillon, we used fermented beans and seeds like iru a...
July 11, 2023
The Streets Aren't Safe...From Inflation
In Nigeria, street food means tasty portable snacks like Àkàrà and Suya, but it also means bowls of pepper soup and loaded plates of rice and stew served from the many bukas that crowd street corners. Street food culture is r...
June 17, 2023
The Real Jollof War: Senegal vs France
The West African jollof wars are friendly internet banter about an umami-rich rice dish beloved across the region. When we’re not fighting about who makes it best, we’re reluctantly agreeing that the region owes the recipe to...
May 31, 2023
Long Live the Bread King
Amos Shackleford initially arrived in Lagos from Jamaica to work on the railroads, but he would go on to make Nigerian food history. When Shackleford started his bakery from Ebute Metta in the 1920s, he would use his business...
Jan. 15, 2022
Beer vs Craft Beer
Every bottle of Budweiser or Heineken is made to taste the exact same wherever you’re drinking around the world…and that gets boring. Cue, Craft Beer & Craft Breweries — smaller breweries that are popping up everywhere and ma...
Nov. 16, 2021
How Food Made The #EndSARS Protests
During the #EndSARS movement, several small businesses paused their day-to-day operations to feed thousands of people for FREE. On this episode we reflect on the anniversary of the #EndSARS protests and how food and those ven...
Oct. 16, 2021
Lagos Restaurants: A Story of Migration
On this episode, the uncooked women dig into one of their favourite things - restaurants that provide food they didn’t have to cook! We head to the Syrian Club, a restaurant and social club that’s been in Lagos since the 80’s...
Oct. 15, 2021
SEASON TRAILER Introducing: The Uncooked Women Podcast
We’re back baby! It’s a brand new season of connecting the food we didn’t cook to just about everything. Join us as we eat our way through Nigerias rich gastronomy and connect the dots between food, history, politics and ours...