A Zambian Chef Returns to His Roots with This Baobab Panna Cotta

As a young boy growing up in Zambia, Sungani Phiri was a picky eater, except when it came to cooking with his siblings to give their mom a break on weekends. One of his earliest cooking memories is inventing a dish he’d “now call stroganoff,” made with beef, traditional mbalala (peanut) sauce, and rice. “That day my parents and siblings were blown away and kept telling me I should be a chef....