The Long Table Cookbook
Menus for sharing, with the shopping lists, timings and the order to cook things in.
Weeknight Rice and Noodles
Fast, generous dinners built around a pot of rice or a packet of noodles.
Pickles, Ferments and Sauces
The jars and bottles that make plain food taste like yours.
The Whole Kitchen
All three books together, for the cook who wants the whole shelf.
The person behind the table.
Ama Udofa cooks and tells stories: at the supper club table, in recipe books, on video and in writing.
“i cook & tell stories.”
Food, memory and tradition
Where the cooking comes from.
Food is how Ama makes sense of people and places. He cooks traditional dishes like ekpang nkukwo, bakes chicken and potatoes for friends, and makes chicken sandwiches from scratch, and he is as interested in the story around a dish as in the recipe for it.
He will travel to another city to eat amala and ice cream and climb a hill for no reason at all. Curiosity is the thread through all of it, which is why so many of his stories start over a meal and end somewhere you did not expect.
Why he hosts
What the table is for.
The Amazing Supper Club is a multi-course dinner with wine pairings, and it is where everything he does meets: the cooking, the stories and the people. A shared table does something a restaurant booking rarely does. It puts strangers within reach of each other.
He has been feeding friends at home too, from dinner and presentation nights to beers and a tray of roast chicken. Ama wants guests to arrive curious and leave a little more connected: well fed, talked to, and a bit surprised by who they ended up sitting next to.
His creative world
Food videos, recipe books, cultural commentary and the other things he makes.
Food videos
Cooking, eating and travelling to eat, on camera, from traditional dishes to sandwiches from scratch.
Recipe books
Collections you can cook from, in the Recipe Shop.
Cultural commentary
Short videos on how food, class and politics mix, from the gentrification of the palate to who decides what counts as healthy.
Other interests
Travelling to eat and drink, and climbing rocks.
Selected moments
Photographs from past supper clubs, food projects and travels.