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This Yam Dish is the Real Birthday 'Cake' in Ghana

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Globally, cakes are the most common feature of birthday celebration. From fruits-crusted or the regular plain but often well-decorated cake and everyone loves it. However, in some parts of West Africa, a traditionally made yam or plantain meal called “3tor” is used as the celebrating “cake” not just for birthdays, but to mark certain “milestones”...

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