It's high time local foods found their rightful place on five-star hotel menus

Tourists sample madafu after disembarking from a cruise ship at the Port of Mombasa in Mombasa County in February 2024. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

In Kenya, we easily promoted boiled maize, ngwaci (sweet potatoes), and nduma (arrowroots) to five-star hotel menus.

What about roasted maize? What was ordinary man's food has been mainstreamed into our cuisine. Big hotels can tell us how the visitors or tourists reacted to that.