Fran Osseo-Asare - New Leaf Initiative

State College, PA, USA (and Tema, Ghana, West Africa)

At U.C., Berkeley, (BA, MSW), I was involved in community organization and the cooperative movement. Later, I managed Our Store, a food cooperative in Central PA. After my 3 children were born, I entered Penn State to earn a PhD in rural sociology focusing on African social change, with fieldwork in Ghana, my husband?s home country. I was simultaneously writing (and photographing) my first West African cookbook.

My interests include:

Celebrating?Sub-Saharan African cuisine and culture:?Founder, BETUMI: The African Culinary Network; writing books/articles/chapters/blog about African cooking/culture: e.g.,?A New Land to Live In??[IV Press, 1976];?A Good Soup Attracts Chairs[Pelican Pub., 1993, 2001];?Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa?[Greenwood Press, 2005],??plus articles and reviews written for magazines including?Gastronomica?and?Sojourners; speaking at national meetings (e.g., International Association of Culinary Professionals,??Rural Sociological Society, and??Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, for Eatfeed and the BBC, as a celebrity chef at Rodale, at Epicure Row at the Miami Book Fair, and for the Culinary Historians of New York.

Teacher/writer:?teaching cooking classes (e.g., Tait Farms, Penn State, and throughout central Pennsylvania); working in schools as a creative nonfiction writer in partnership with the PA Council of the Arts; writing an (award-winning) blog (betumiblog.blogspot.com). I recently taught a course on technical writing at the African University of Science and Technology in Nigeria.

Instructional Designer:?I worked for 6 years for PSU?s World Campus as an instructional designer (receiving national awards for 2 of my courses!)

Source: http://newleafinitiative.org/2011/fran-osseo-asare/

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