Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s food is built around sadza with peanut-buttered greens, slow-stewed village chicken, dried kapenta and mopane worms; fermented maize drinks. Look for Sadza (stiff white maize porridge at the center of every meal), Muriwo unedovi (leafy greens simmered in creamy peanut butter) and Madora (dried mopane worms fried with tomato and chili). Maize meal cooked stiff, eaten twice daily; maize arrived through Portuguese trade and became Zimbabwe’s staple in the colonial era. This atlas has 29 Zimbabwe dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.