Mama Koiba ... The lady of Angolan cuisine and "icon" of local cuisine

Known in Angola as a gastronomic chef with a thirst for traditional local flavors, is Mama Koiba, chosen three times as Country Person of the Year by Angolans, a country known for its delicious food, from street food to the most luxurious and opulent in the best restaurants and hotels. Mama Koeba, who is a symbol of Angolan culture, begins the working day by heading to the market in the capital, Luanda, where she chooses the ingredients for her magical dishes that belong to Angolan cuisine, this cuisine that lifts its hat inside and A welcome and hospitality so worthy of such kings and culinary masters that the director of the Vitruvio restaurant, Pedro de Campos, calls it an "icon" in the culinary world. She says: "She is the ambassador of Angolan cuisine and she is a truly wonderful woman", adding: "She has given a lot to Angolan cuisine". Mama Koiba is a nice woman, but at the same time a demanding and weary customer for the market sellers where she started her career. Her real name is Catarina Ferrissimo da Costa, she is also known as Natalia because she was born at Christmas and is also known as Mama Koiba, which means ugly in the Kimbundu language. Thirty years old, there were girls in their twenties, they were young and beautiful .. I was the oldest and the ugliest of them, and I had to give in to the nickname of ugly .. But .. Mama Cuba's upright was just the place where you could eat and drink, ”she said. At the beginning of its launch, Mama Koiba started selling soft drinks, and in the meantime she bought an old wood-burning oven and a table and placed it next to her "basket" at the market, to cook for her children after school as well. to her husband upon returning from work, and says: "The smell of food was Cooked food arouses the appetite of sellers and buyers alike, and they ask me for some food.", This was the beginning, but cooking is undoubtedly hard work, from shopping to cleaning and cutting to baking and serving. As Mama Coeba's business expanded, she had to leave the market and open a restaurant in town, and start her job cooking for Angola's national football team. That day I received the team members in the restaurant and served them food. " From a modest cuisine, to one of the best restaurants in Luanda .. So was Mama Cuba in the culinary world, where she registered a wonderful and even overwhelming presence, through which she created an important social platform to support national campaigns such as fighting the violence against women, and one day she even appeared on the reality show "Big". Brother ". Mama Koiba has added a lot to the local cuisine, cooking and teaching, despite claiming to cook "fast", but this great humility does not hide that she has managed to carve out an impressive path in the culinary world, which has made her a truly national icon youth.