ACCRA, GHANA, 2014. Pounding cooked cassava into fufu. Cooking the root gelatinizes the starch granules and pounding the cooked root causes the starch granules to burst. The result is a wonderfully gluey accompaniment to cooked meat and soup, a wonderfully flavorful broth.
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