Zoe Adjonyoh

Zoe Adjonyoh is a British writer and cook.

She was born in Essex, England, in the late 1970s to a Ghanaian father and an Irish mother. Adjonyoh taught herself to cook the foods of her father's home country, and she began a restaurant called Zoe's Ghana Kitchen in her home in East London, after the popularity of a stall she set up selling peanut stew when a local arts festival was taking place nearby in 2010. Although she had started making and selling Ghanaian food in order to fund her Creative Writing MA at Goldsmiths, University of London, her tutor suggested that to focus on her business might be a better way into writing the memoir she was working on. She has since run pop-up restaurants in different London venues as well as in other places including Berlin and New York. She won the 2018 Culinary Iconoclast Award.

She is the author of a 2017 book also called Zoe's Ghana Kitchen, about which Ruby Tandoh said: "If you are what you eat, then Adjonyoh’s debut cookbook, Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen, is a kind of edible portrait: a celebratory, intelligent, often chaotic rendering of the person she is, and of her heritage." According to Wendell Brock's review of the book:"In her delightfully quirky book, Adjonyoh shares her spin on the food of her Ghanaian father’s homeland, with some funny side notes on her experiences in Ghana and how she’s mashed up her Irish mum and her African father’s native cuisines. There are even soundtracks to play while cooking and eating. I suspect there’s a memoir in the making here."