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Of the world’s seven continents, Africa is second only to Asia in terms of population and land size. The continent contains just about every climate and geography type you can imagine, as it stretches from the bone-dry desert sands of the north, to rain-drenched jungles, across the savannas where human life first emerged, to the mountainous tip of South Africa. Africa, quite literally, is where cooking began. In Africa, many millennia ago, our relatives first learned to tame the flames of fire to produce cooked foods. Without this advance, cuisine had no chance to develop. Not surprisingly for such a large continent with so much climactic diversity, there are very distinctive styles of cuisine. Contact with colonizing and slave-trading Europeans began an exchange of foods between Africa and the New World, which brought sweet potatoes, chiles, and tomatoes to Africa -- and black-eyed peas, okra, and yams to the Americas.
 

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Slow Cooker Pork Chops II

Reviewed on Jul. 8, 2009 by Merle 
Extremely tender! My brother said that we could do away with our knives :-) I didn't have poultry seasoning, so i substituted it with brown onion soup mix. We're having the leftovers tonight and this time I'll team it with spicy brown rice. Thanks for a gr8 recipe!
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Barbeque Pork Two Ways

Reviewed on Jul. 2, 2009 by Merle 
I loved this recipe! I used 6 pork neck steaks. Did it overnight in the slow cooker and had to really curb myself from eating an entire steak this morning at 6am! thanks for sharing. Can't wait till dinner tonight.
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Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Reviewed on Jul. 2, 2009 by Katherine 
The only change I made was to omit the bacon since I didn't have any on hand. Delicious!
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