Senegal
A meal, a place, and shared knowledge
The Saint-Louis folio introduces the ceebu jën heritage account. Follow rice and the other named ingredients into the Herbarium, then read the preparation account with its social context.
From the kitchen
Something to bring to your table.
We haven’t added a complete recipe here yet. Begin with the preparation readings below.
Meet the ingredients
Plants beside these readings.
Ingredients and plants in the selected sources; their presence here does not establish a native range or origin.
People, practice & time
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Saint-Louis, Senegal ↗
Ceebu jën places rice and vegetables within a fish dish and a tradition of sharing meals.
A national nomination connects the dish to Saint-Louis fishing communities. Its overview allows regional variation and does not identify the rice or eggplant species in each version.
Ceebu jën: reading the whole dish ↗
Okra, eggplant, parsley, garlic and onion are among the plants named in the heritage account. Keeping them beside the fish and rice preserves the dish’s documented context.
A national nomination connects the dish to Saint-Louis fishing communities. Its overview allows regional variation and does not identify the rice or eggplant species in each version.
Keep the source beside the place.
This is a sourced tradition reading, not a complete modern recipe or a claim that every household prepares the dish in the same way.
UNESCO · Ceebu Jën, a culinary art of Senegal ↗ https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ceebu-jen-a-culinary-art-of-senegal-01748?RL=01748
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