When we were growing up Zimbabwean food was never celebrated. The people cooking on TV were always making western food or Indian food. At school I did Food and Nutrition and it did not include any of the foods that we ate at home at least for most of the black Zimbabweans. I have no problem with being aspirational which I assume was the purpose of the design of the syllabus but I think that balance is needed.
With the internet, the are many Zimbabwean bloggers who are mixing traditional and modern in a beautiful way. It makes me so happy that our food is being documented and being shared with the rest of the world.
Here are some bloggers that I like to follow and you may want to check out too.