The next best thing to eating food, is talking about it, the best ten African food sayings proverbs and quotes

These 10 African food sayings proverbs and quotes will give you an appreciation of African culture love for good food. Many African food proverbs have origins in rural African villages and can tell you a lot about that place.

Best Ten African Food Sayings Proverbs and Quotes

A palm wine tapper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree.

An onion shared with a friend tastes like roast lamb.

Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.

A juicy bone is useless to a dog with no teeth.

Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength in old age, strong but harsh.

A bowl should not laugh when a calabash breaks.

A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam that his mother puts into his palm.

A fallen branch cannot bear fruits on its own.

A guest who breaks the dishes of his host is not soon forgotten.

A person who sells eggs does not start a fight in the market.

African food sayings proverbs and quotes in DRC kitchens

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Being African in America I have grown up learning about different ethnic cultures. My mother is a historian of African culture and history and her influence expanded my activities to several best-selling cookbooks, magazine columns, self-branded products, and a popular African culture and food blog.