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America’s Best New Restaurant Celebrates the Flavors of West Africa
Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Photography by Katherine Kimball, Joshua Brasted , & Jeremy Tauriac African cuisine has always been well represented in the United States, particularly in dishes characterized as “Southern” in origin, like gumbo …