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LIBERIA

CAPITAL: Monrovia

ETHNIC INFLUENCES: US and Middle Eastern influences and local indigenous dishes.

POPULAR RESTAURANTS: Mamba Point Hotel for Sundowners, Lebanese cuisine at Beirut; seafood at The Anchor. Liberian local dishes Auntie Nana near the Cathedral, lunch at La Pointe Restaurant. Good night spots La Noche Bar and Deja Vu. 

BREAD: Rice bread, nut or plantain bread 

POPULAR DISHES: Heavy stews spiced with habanero and scotch bonnet chillies are popular and eaten with fufu, jollof rice, which consists of a sauté made of cooked meats. 

OTHER DISHES: Eggplant stew, cassava cake, stewed mangoes, eggplant fritters, peanut soup, cabbage stew, cornbread, coconut pie

LOCAL DRINKS: Ginger beer, beer.

PRODUCE: Rice, cassava, fish, bananas, citrus fruit, plantains, coconut, okra and sweet potatoes, vegetables palm oil, ginger, manioc, (cassava) .

NEED TO KNOW: Liberia also has a tradition of baking imported from the United States that is unique in West Africa. 

UNUSUAL FOODS: Fufu,or dumboy (variants of the name include foofoo, foufou, foutou), is a staple food of West and Central Africa. A thick paste of boiled starchy root vegetables pounded to a paste.

 

FESTIVE FOODS: Liberian rice bread, with cream of rice and mashed bananas, the Liberian pineapple nut bread or plantain gingerbread. 

HEALTHY EATING: Drink bottled water. Vegetarian dishes are popular.

 

 

 

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