Igbo traditional food system
culture / culture-igbo
イボ食文化 / Igbo food culture
Igbo traditional food system is a food system documented in the Igbo cultural area of southeastern Nigeria.
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ナイジェリア・イグボの Ofe Onugbu（ビターリーフスープ）を、主食のセモリナ団子（semovita）とともに盛り付けた状態。「Onugbu」はイグボ語で「苦い葉」を意味し、苦味と直結した代表的な郷土料理。
料理写っているもの: 該当なし（民族食文化。料理は Ofe Onugbu=ビターリーフスープ）部位・状態: スーモリタ(セモリナ団子)を添えたオヌグブースープの盛り付け
写真: Asuzu Obinna Justin／ CC BY-SA 4.0／ 原画像／ 台帳の原画像
写真の範囲と来歴
被写体の確認: 原典の記載による同定。dish-bitterleaf-soup（同じ料理を扱う別エンティティ）は File:Bitter_leaf_soup_(Ofe_Onugbu).jpg を既に使用しているため、重複を避けて別の候補ファイルを採用した。
掲載画像: Wikimedia Commons の原寸ファイルを sips で長辺2400pxに縮小。苦味研究所では切り抜き・色調変更なし（リサイズのみ）。 表示用には幅1200px上限のWebPを配信し、台帳の原画像は上のリンクから確認できます。
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Reading the bitterness
Igbo food culture is the system of dishes passed down among Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria. One recorded dish in this system is onugbu soup, made with Vernonia amygdalina, commonly called bitter leaf; a food-chemistry paper names it as an example of a regional dish. The idea of incorporating leaves that, as their name indicates, are bitter into a dish as a soup ingredient is the starting point here.
A separate survey records how the bitter leaf is handled. A traditional-food-systems study spanning 4 states and 8 communities combined interviews with key informants, focus groups, and questionnaires. It describes onugbu (Vernonia) as 「苦く、使う前に通常洗う」 (in translation: "bitter and usually washed before use"). It does not give the number of washes or a target level of reduced bitterness. The earlier paper mentioning onugbu soup is a food-chemistry paper that refers to food culture as background, not a primary ethnographic account of regional culture.
Sources for this overview
Checked for this overview: Confirmed the limited description naming onugbu soup as a southeastern regional dish.
Igbo Traditional Food System: Documentation, Uses and Research Needs
Checked for this overview: Confirmed the record that bitter leaves are usually washed before use, and the absence of washing details.
Follow the connections
bitter-leaf soup →is documented as part of→ Igbo traditional food system
bitterleaf debittering →is documented in→ Igbo traditional food system
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How processing and cooking change it (1)
Scope: a traditional food-system survey table covering 8 communities across 4 states
Note: Bitter leaf is recorded as "bitter, usually washed before use". The endpoint of washing is not given.
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process-bitterleaf-debittering —is_documented_in→ culture-igboCulture (1)
Scope: The culinary system of southeastern Nigeria
Note: Recorded as onugbu soup.
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dish-bitterleaf-soup —is_documented_as_part_of→ culture-igbo