The Cecil Celebrates The African Diaspora In The Heart of Harlem

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• JJ Johnson, the young, James Beard Award-nominated executive chef, celebrates Africa’s deep, well-traveled culinary history with the food at The Cecil, resulting in a menu that Johnson calls Afro-Asian-American
• On the menu: whole Nigerian prawns with West African peanut sauce, lamb and sticky rice, moqueca (smoked fish, salt cod, okra, prawns, and Thai basil), and tamarind-glazed oxtails
• The Cecil is the sister restaurant to Minton’s next door, which doubles as a historic Harlem jazz club

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