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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Farai Mutsaka

How a cooking contest brought diplomats and Zimbabweans together

Zimbabwe Diplomats Cooking Competition - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

In a world of trade wars, tariffs and tensions, foreign diplomats in Zimbabwe found a more lighthearted way to vie for supremacy: a cooking contest.

Ambassadors swapped briefing notes for recipes in the quest to win the second annual #ambassadorscookoff challenge in the southern African country last month. Their task was to produce the most delicious-looking version of a favorite local village dish of chicken with rice in a peanut butter sauce. The public voted online after the diplomats posted photos of their finished meals.

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