What I Learned from Cooking My Way Across a Continent | Dieuveil Malonga | TED

The good thing with food, like, food brings people together.

Food doesn't have borders. I believe the new generation really are pushing now to promote the amazing food heritage we have in the continent.

My name is Dieuveil Malonga and I'm a chef.

I've worked in many restaurants, from Paris, from Germany, US, Japan, Thailand.

My experience in fine-dining restaurants around the world was amazing.

I've learned amazing technique, I've met amazing people.

Then I realized myself, that I wanted to know more about Pan-African cuisine.

And I took the initiative to go back to the continent.

I wanted to learn. I wanted to go back to school, to the grandmother school.

That took two years just traveling in Africa.

I've learned about food, about culture, and also about the continent, the history.

And go to learn [from] grandmothers about "African cuisine." First, it's not just African cuisine, it's country's cuisine.