Traditional Kitchen Setup

Kitchen as the place for cooking is typically separate from the main house. The kitchen is a fourwalled structure with openings that serve as escape routes for smoke and often roofed with thatches. The most prominent feature of the kitchen is the tripod stove, made with either stones or mud, where firewood is burnt to generate the heat needed to cook food. There is also a water reservoir, a pottery piece made with mud and coated with a black pigment to protect it from getting mouldy. A basket that stores all cooking utensils and tools can be found.

Indigenous knowledge about traditional kitchen

Kitchen types: Typically, Adisifo have two kitchens – a farm kitchen and a home kitchen. The farm kitchen is in the form of a hut where they cook and eat as a break from work. The home kitchen is normally used for cooking when they do not go to the farm. The Afarfo have one kitchen at home adored as a special space where women explore their culinary skills and creativity. Barter trade: There has been a barter trade system where the Adisifo would exchange raw farm produce and game meat for cooked fish dishes or raw fish. Originally, traders did not have physical contact because of instilled honesty among the natives. Today, traders sit by their goods and bargain for the highest bidder because as it is sadly acknowledged, that honesty has dissipated from the modern trade system being driven by greed.