Nigeria: Toyo Idris - Cooking Up Dreams

18 February 2013

Toyo Idris is on a mission to ignite the fun in cooking as she launches a reality television Cooking programme, cook it.

My meeting with Toyo didn't quite happen till the second attempt, thanks to my mobile phone packing up on the day of our first meet. However, we finally met one Monday morning at Yellow Chilli, Ikeja. Dressed in a sheath dress with wedges, her very short hair and edgy glasses added spunk to a very bubbly personality. She wasn't alone, she was with her daughter (a seven-year-old) and definitely a chip off the old block.

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