La nourriture

Le petit dejeuner

Here is our typical breakfast and a great example of the French influence in Togo.  Togo's two main resources are cocoa and coffee that they export.  Historically, this was good for the economy and people could then buy more material things and adapt a more developed lifestyle.  However, this is still a very noticeable contrast here between traditional ways of an African lifestyle and modern lifestyle.  While you can have a three course meal in a restaurant, you can also stop at the side of the road and get a mushed corn mixture that you eat with your hands.  However, the northern regions remain more traditional and will eat mostly with their hands and cook African staples like the mushed corn deal (le pate) that tastes like grits/cream of wheat.