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Number 68 on the 2024 list
Yewande Komolafe is a cookbook author and new york times cooking writer from Nigeria, named to the AFN 100 in 2024 for her James Beard Book Award nomination for My Everyday Lagos.
Yewande Komolafe, a New York Times cooking writer who grew up in Lagos, was nominated for a 2024 James Beard Book Award in the International category for My Everyday Lagos: Nigerian Cooking at Home and in the Diaspora. The nominees were announced on 30 April 2024, and her book sat alongside The World Central Kitchen Cookbook, which won in June 2024. Her mother, a food scientist, still lives in Lagos.