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Farming, iron, cloth and glass; the market system and the women who ran it; cowrie money; and the routes that tied Yorubaland to the Sahara and the Atlantic.

The agricultural base, yam and its ritual centrality, the staple dishes and their regional variation, palm oil, food taboos and their lineage and orisa basis, and the social meaning of feeding people.

The kitchen as a physical and technical space, its equipment, its cooking techniques, and the biochemistry of fermentation and palm oil extraction carried out in it.

A historical analysis of Madam Ẹfúnpọ̀róyè Ọ̀ṣúntinúbú, examining her career as a nineteenth-century merchant magnate, political kingmaker in Lagos and Abeokuta, and first Iyalode of Egbaland.