1464: okra and Accra Dec 14, 2018

Okra has for a long time been a staple of African American cooking, and its linguistic origin shows this as well. Unlike many other classically American —particularly Southern—foods, okra originates from African tropics. It is believed that the name comes from the word 'nkru'. While this in and of itself it not particularly significant, it shows a similar process that happened to other words like it, such as how the Ghanan city—now capital of Ghana—is natively 'Nkran' but is Anglicized as 'Accra'.
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