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Akara Roots
Chef Victoire: "I made akara roots. So I make a cannoli with the cassava. I use five different texture of the roots. We have a great and amazing continent with an amazing astronomy. And by this food, we can change our continent."
Padma Lakshi: "When this dish is eaten normally, is it sweet or savory?"
Chef Victoire: "In Ghana, savory. In Congo, it's sweet."
Gaggan Anand: "I love your message, Victoire. Heartwarming that Africa should not just be a safari land, but rather be taken seriously with food. Thank you."
(Later, during judging ...)
Tom Colicchio: "It tells a great story. The dish itself wasn't, I don't think, the most successful."
Gaggan Anand: "Absolutely."
Tom Colicchio: "I thought the cream inside was just really bland. "
Gaggan Anand: "I like the humbleness of it. Her message was strong, but I think her message was not strong enough in terms of ingredients from Africa."
Padma Lakshi: "It needed a little more sugar and a little more salt, both if she wanted toe that line between the two versions that she grew up with."
Gail Simmons "Everything got a little muddled and lost."
