Belgian-Congolese chef opens Senegal's first artisan chocolate shop
The Peninsula
DAKAR: Forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to abandon plans to open a restaurant, Danuta Nganko, a Belgian-Congolese chef in Senegal's capital Dakar, settled instead on an even tastier endeavour: to become the country's first gourmet chocolatier.
"When COVID started, all my activities stopped," she said. "I thought about working with a product, and I thought, 'Why not chocolate?' ... Because I really love technical types of cooking, I thought it was for me." Since then, Nganko has realised a new dream with the opening of Venko - Senegal's first and only artisanal chocolate company.More Related News