{"id":84176,"date":"2009-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunset.com\/food-wine\/kitchen-assistant"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:17:28","slug":"food-wine-kitchen-assistant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunset.com\/food-wine\/kitchen-assistant","title":{"rendered":"Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Search Sunset’s collection of great recipes for every occasion, from weekday meals to dinner parties to holiday menus.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124418,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"landing-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_should_modify_publish_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[31433],"layout":[67],"class_list":["post-84176","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-wine","category-kitchen-assistant","tag-recipes","layout-article"],"acf":{"display_row_fields":"yes","page_subheadline":"Great recipes for every occasion, from weekday meals to dinner parties to holiday menus","display_row_1":"yes","stories_row_1_top":[{"ID":192330,"post_author":"16","post_date":"2025-07-31 03:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-31 10:00:00","post_content":"\n

Kiano Moju writes the kind of recipes we love to cook<\/a>: The ingredient list reads like a shopping list, the instructions are short and unfussy, there\u2019s typically a spice blend<\/a> or punchy flavor enhancer that triggers your yum response, and when you read the recipes, you can almost taste the dish. Born in Oakland to a Kenyan mother and Nigerian father, Moju has always blended flavors and techniques in new and exciting ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kiano Moju in the kitchen.<\/figcaption>

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While in graduate school in London, she ran a pop-up taco restaurant that brought the flavors of the Bay Area across the pond. Moju is a culinary producer and writer, and she now runs L.A. school and culinary facility Jikoni Studios<\/a>. In her excellent new book AfriCali: Recipes from My Jikoni<\/a><\/em>, she ties together a life of melding disparate influences in delicious ways that channel the diverse traditions of the African continent in a way that\u2019s easy, fresh, and unmistakably Californian in its easy creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more delicious recipes bridging Californian and African foodways, pick up a copy of AfriCali: Recipes from My Jikoni<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[shopping_cart_button text=\"AfriCali: Recipes from My Jikoni, $35\" price=\"Buy Now\" url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/AfriCali-Recipes-My-Jikoni-Cookbook\/dp\/1668002132?&linkCode=ll1&tag=prodnostic06-20&linkId=566b0bef98d4a63b632fdd022d80b311&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl\"]\n\n\n\n

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