RECIPE FOR SUCCESS (CALABAR CUISINES)

Calabar is a city in the southern part of Nigeria.

I happen to know a lot about Calabar cuisines as I have a lineage in that part of the country. I grew up being my mother's sous chef, naturally. It is said and proven in Africa that Calabar cuisines are the best. Is it our traditional soups (Afang, Edika-ikong, afia efere,etc.) or our pottage (ekpang nkuwko) or our unripe plantain porridge? I can't list all our traditional cuisines here but I can tell you this,
they are all very savoury dishes.

I was blessed to have a mother who could cook all these dishes growing up and I was privileged to be her sous chef. For that reason I am proud to say I'm a fantastic Calabar cuisine cook (I actually have great culinary skills *Adjusts buba* LOL).

To cook an average quality calabar dish, you could spend up to two hours preparing the ingredients from scratch and barely 10- 20 minutes cooking it. So much attention is given to each ingredient. Some you have to cleanse with salt, some you wash with hot water, some you have to pound. It's such a long process but every detail is an integral part of the success of the dish. If you don't wrap your grated water yams in the whole vegetable leaves properly, your ekpang nkukwo could be ruined. No wonder our dishes taste the way they do.

For you to succeed as music artiste, you must take time to prepare. The amount of preparation you put in will determine how long you'll last in the industry. It doesn't matter if it looks like you've been preparing for years but nothing seems to be forth-coming, keep preparing. The longer you prepare, the better you handle your success.

As a gospel artiste, you might have been singing in your local churches where the sound is below average and all your technical flaws were overshadowed by the poor quality of the sound but are you prepared for an opportunity to perform at Lakewood church alongside Israel Houghton? All those flat notes you didn't notice with the bad sound will be amplified when you perform on a platform like Lakewood's. All those times you didn't even notice two of your guitar strings were dis-tuned, it will hit you in the face on an international platform.

How prepared are you for the kind of success you're praying for? If you want afang soup kind of success, you better be ready to put in longer time in preparation. You can't put in indomie effort and expect Afang soup results. Spend time preparing for the kind of success you want.

Preparation positions your talent - John Maxwell


Today's recipe for success: PREPARATION

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Best wishes
Jesam.