I ate samosas and chapatis and drank chai, truly believing they were Kenyan. It never occurred to me to question where they came from. They were part of the food I knew. Of course they were ours. You can imagine my shock when I learned that their origins lay elsewhere. It was mind-blowing to realize that foods I associated so completely with Kenya had histories reaching beyond our borders. That discovery sparked my interest in what I call the architecture of Kenyan food. I wa

One thing I wish more people understood about Kenya is how diverse we are. Our food is part of that, but so are our people, our languages, our landscapes, and the different ways we experience being Kenyan. When I think about Kenya, there is so much that comes to mind. Then I look at the version of Kenya people may encounter through American media, and I feel the distance between those two pictures. Whatever someone has seen in a headline or a travel feature, there is always m

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