Ekaterra Co.

Ekaterra Co. We're a wild harvested, single-origin West African spice company. Bringing the flavors of West Africa to the world.

West African inspired Fried Green Tomatoes are up on the recipe blog. Link in bio 💃🏽🕺🏽. Tomato season has been a blessin...
08/26/2022

West African inspired Fried Green Tomatoes are up on the recipe blog. Link in bio 💃🏽🕺🏽. Tomato season has been a blessing and there are so many varieties out there. The green ones are 💚💚💚. We wanted to kick up the heat 🌶, so we seasoned them with Yaji (Suya pepper) mix and we must say the result was 🔥.

Also, in our bio is the link to our Afrobeats playlists. If nothing else, we highly encourage jamming to Afrobeats while cooking. After all food and music go together.

West African flavors are complex, deep, smokey, earthy, peppery, hot and so much more. They can be used in cooking just ...
08/15/2022

West African flavors are complex, deep, smokey, earthy, peppery, hot and so much more. They can be used in cooking just about anything to add complex, deep, smokey, earthy, peppery, hot flavors to your plate. Like this bowl of girasoli in pepper soup broth for example. Despite the fact that it’s hot outside, the heat from this bowl of deliciousness will make you sweat and ultimately cool you down. See how Mother Nature has us sorted?

Who wants the recipe for this? Let us know in the comments.

Have you been seeing a lot of fresh corn in the grocery stores lately? We have. It reminds us that it’s also corn season...
07/28/2022

Have you been seeing a lot of fresh corn in the grocery stores lately? We have. It reminds us that it’s also corn season back home in the Motherland too. Street sellers line the streets with their grills full of corn and local pear (and avocado like fruit), which are eaten together or pots of straight up boiled corn. Are you a corn lover? 🙋🏾🙋🏽‍♀️

We’re thinking of ways to help spice up your next batch of corn on the cob. And corn in general. The recipe development has us hungry for already! Coming to the blog soon.

📸 by our amazing .ty

Today we have some fun, because...no reason. Please do not @ us! 🤣
07/26/2022

Today we have some fun, because...no reason. Please do not @ us! 🤣

07/26/2022

Today back in the Motherland and abroad we are celebrating Liberia🇱🇷. Today marks Liberia's 175th year of Independence. 200 years ago freed slaves from the U.S. arrived in Liberia and 25 years later the country was declared to be independent from the United States.

Liberia, which means “land of the free,” was the first nation on the African continent to gain its independence on July 26, 1847 from the United States of America. Liberia, the oldest democratic republic on the continent of Africa and the only country to have escaped European colonization. 💪🏽

The Republic of Liberia began as a settlement of the American Colonization Society (ACS), who believed black people would face better chances for freedom in Africa than in the United States. Between 1822 and 1861, thousands of free blacks were relocated to the settlement at Cape Mesurado on the Pepper Coast of West Africa. In 1824 the colony was named Liberia, and the main settlement was named Monrovia in honor of U.S. President James Monroe, which is the present day capital of Liberia.

A popular dish: Dumboy and pepper soup 🙌🏽😋

Big multinational multi-billion-dollar companies feel they can throw their gravitas around and drown out smaller compani...
07/19/2022

Big multinational multi-billion-dollar companies feel they can throw their gravitas around and drown out smaller companies like mine. This has to stop! I own the name and trademark, Ekaterra along with the domain, ekaterra.com. As a result of my use of the EKATERRA mark in commerce before anyone else, I have senior rights to the EKATERRA mark. However, Unilever proceeded to name their tea business ‘ekaterra’ and have been squatting on my trade name for the past year, despite knowing about my pre-existing EKATERRA business. They then went ahead and transferred said tea business ‘ekaterra’ to CVC Capital Partners for €4.5 billion when they did not own the mark. How is that possible? In the process of infringing on my mark, they have decided to ignore my legal team for months at a stretch, which is severely hurting my business.

The name Ekaterra for us means Motherland (Africa, and West Africa specifically), which I coined from two words - Eka (meaning mother in Ibibio, the language of my tribe from Southeastern Nigeria) and Terra (the Latin word for earth/land). I created and have been using this name long before Unilever did.

My legal team is doing their work, but I am no longer going to be silent on this and I will not go away because Unilever feels the name ekaterra is more important to them. Unilever may have bigger budgets and bigger teams than I do as a startup founder. They can out-spend me in marketing and PR, or try to drown me in legalese, but the name is mine. I have done all the things that a business should do to protect its trade name.

Unilever has one option; meet with my legal team regarding this blatant infringement.



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06/19/2022

Happy Father's day to all the father's and father figures out there who are doing all they can to help nurture, nourish and provide for the growing generations. We salute you today and every day!

06/17/2022

It's Friday ya'll! Who's ready for the long weekend? It's a special one because we'll be celebrating the latest and greatest holiday on Sunday - Juneteenth observed on Monday the 20th 💃🏽🕺🏽. What plans do you have? Whatever they are, they should definitely include cooking while grooving to some Afrobeats playing in the background. We highly recommend it! This week we're sharing our Cook with Afrobeats Playlist #4 curated by our in-house music aficiando . It's time to get cooking 🥘.

All across markets in the countries of West Africa, you will find the spice section with traders offering local spices w...
06/14/2022

All across markets in the countries of West Africa, you will find the spice section with traders offering local spices wrapped in tiny plastic bags (let's not talk about the plastic right now). Individual spices that are ground together for specific dishes such as pepper soup spices, banga soup spices, nsala soup spices. You may never have seen some of them before, and the traders may not be able to tell you their local names, let alone their biological names, but they are potent, aromatic, and also medicinal. Deciphering these spices, researching their origins, uses and flavor profiles, while creating access to them and everyday use cases for you, is what keeps us up at night. And guess what? We wouldn't have it any other way. Gbafilo, umilo, Guinea cubeb, sumbala, hwentia, and the list goes on. You deserve to have these in your kitchen, in your cooking pots and on your plates.

📸 .ty

05/25/2022

Today we celebrate the 54 aka all of Africa as its Africa Day. In celebration of African Union we are launching this week’s Afrobeats playlist early as we feature artists from across the Continent. Today we celebrate diversity and unity and the Motherland in all her glory.

our in-house music curator did a fab job and we’re looking forward to seeing what you cook while listening to these vibes

As always the link is in bio. We’ve got a great recipe coming up that you can cook along to.

05/20/2022

Countdown to the weekend! 🙌🏽Today we are serving up our Afro Beats Playlist #2 and it's 🔥🔥🔥. And while you’re listening to it, why not whip up our Cook with Afrobeats baked potato recipe?

Have you been seeing every possible kind of potatoes at the grocery store lately? We sure have. What can we do to spice them up? Bake them with our Pepper Soup Spice mix. On the journal is our Pepper Soup spiced p*e wee potatoes (say that three times 😂). These cuties go with just about anything as a side dish or as part of your main. Recipe link in bio. Playlist link? Also in bio.

Playlist compiled by our in-house music curator 🕺🏽

African Bird’s Eye Chilis, also known as piri piri chilis or ata wewe in Yoruba, are tiny smoked dried chili peppers tha...
05/17/2022

African Bird’s Eye Chilis, also known as piri piri chilis or ata wewe in Yoruba, are tiny smoked dried chili peppers that aside from heat offer a light, yet herbaceous flavor. Similar in flavor to the tabasco pepper, these chilis are used to add heat to a variety of dishes in a much less overwhelming way.

Add a few to a grinder with your seasoning mix, add to soups, stews, sauces, dressings. Add a whole chilis to your stir fries and roasts. Pairs well with cilantro, and the West African holy trinity - ginger, garlic and onions.

What would you cook with these cuties? Tell us in the comments.

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