Nigerian man sells jollof rice outside consulate office in New York with his wife

If there is a food Nigerians both home and abroad do not joke with, it is jollof rice. They are so proud of the staple food that it has always being debated that Nigerian jollof is better than Ghana own.

Bringing the much-loved food, jollof rice, closer to Nigerians in the diaspora is a Nigerian man, Godshelter Oluwalogbon, and his wife, Bisola, operating from their Divine Flavored Food truck which is strategically located on 2nd Avenue in front of the Nigerian consulate.

Oluwalogbon who earlier in life worked as a waiter in Nigeria when he was 15-16 years old began his food business on a part-time basis in 2005, catering on the weekends because he had a full-time job he was doing went into the business full time in 2010.

The food vendor came into US from Ghana in 2001, Oluwalogbon has a Ghanaian mum and a Nigerian father. So you can imagine the kind of jollof rice he will cook.

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Sharing his road to success after working for Zabar for 10 years, he said: "At one point, I was trying to look for another job while working at Zabar’s, just so I could get more money, but my boss, Chef Boris, told me, “No, don’t look for another job, go to school.” I listened to him. I went to culinary school at the Art Institute of New York, and he gave me a little raise, which really helped. At one point, I was working at Zabar’s in the morning, and at night, LSG Sky Chefs at the airport or a nursing home facility in the Bronx as a dietary supervisor."

His customers are of various nationalities but with 75% of them being Nigerians. The rest are mixed from all over the world.

Oluwalogbon gets assistance from his wife whose mum is a chef back home. The couple got married three months after they met and now have three children together.

Watch a video of the family at their business below:

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Legit.ng had reported the news of the couple, Godshelter and Bisola Oluwalogbon, winning the Vendys awards in faraway New York City, USA. The award was won in a street food competition after dazzling New Yorkers with an array of Nigerian dishes for about two years in a row.

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Source: Legit.ng