Chef Zoe Adjonyoh Is Not Here to Summarize African Food for You

“I feel held here, in a way I don’t feel in the U.K.,” Zoe Adjonyoh said on a recent morning in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Adjonyoh is contemplative, even careful when speaking about her career in London as one of the U.K.’s most visible Ghanaian chefs. When I ask Adjonyoh what it’s like to wear that title, she paused. “It’s a bit much, actually.”