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Published on 10/04/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2•Updated 18:52 “These are cassava and okra mini-quiches with mango curry sauce. And over here, mafé-marinated chicken skewers.” In her kitchen, set within the Cité Fertile, a trendy “third place” on the outskirts of Paris, Marie-Clarisse lays out a tray of elegant bites destined for a prestigious event due that evening in the French capital. “I learned French culinary techniques to showcase ingredients from back home,” she says. “It’s a bridge between Congo and France.” That bridge is also personal. Marie-Clarisse and her family fled conflict in Congo-Brazzaville in the late 1990s to seek refuge…

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