This episode contains explicit language.

I think I'm at the part of my life where I'm just reflecting on all of the experiences that I've had.

I call it, a few years ago turned 40,

and I call it my shameless 40s

where I'm just like living without shame because I'm figuring out that a lot of the

shame that I carried was put on me by like culture, family, experiences, and it's not mine to

carry. And so I am like shedding that shame.

This is the Sportful, it's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.

Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.

Quick note before we get started, this Wednesday, October 25th is World Pasta Day and to celebrate I'm

going to be making a big major announcement. I'll drop a special message right

here in the podcast feed, I'll put it on social media, it's going to be very, very exciting. That's this

Wednesday. All right, let's get into it. On today's show we're talking with

Yewanday Comalafa, a chef and recipe developer in Brooklyn. Yewanday has a

new cookbook out called My Everyday Legos,

which includes her take on some classic Nigerian dishes

and some more modern variations.

Nigeria is a place that Yewanday once thought of as home,

but as you may recall from her

episode we did with her in 2018, when she moved to the US, she ended up losing

her immigration status through no fault of her own. That meant she had to hide

a part of herself. It meant she couldn't go back.

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