After three years at catering(餐饮业；酒席承办) school in Accra, Abiro Wisdom was certain of one thing – he did not want to go into catering. At least not the route(路线；途径) that he might be expected to take. His course had prepared students for working in international hotels, focusing on French, Italian and Mexican cuisine. The nutritious, homegrown(自家种植的；本地的) food that Wisdom had eaten while growing up in Bolgatanga, northern Ghana, did not feature(以……为特色；起重要作用) at all.
在阿克拉的烹饪学校学习了三年后，阿比罗·威兹德姆对一件事确信不疑——他不想从事餐饮业。至少不是人们可能期望他走的那条路。他的课程是为学生去国际酒店工作而准备的，重点教授法式、意式和墨西哥菜肴。而威兹德姆在加纳北部博尔加坦加长大时吃过的那些营养丰富、自家种植的食物，在课程中完全没有出现。
“I didn’t see myself there(想象自己在那里工作),” he says of the big chain hotels. “I felt I wouldn’t be myself(无法做真实的自己) working there – I wouldn’t be able to talk about the food from where I come from.”
“我在那里看不到自己，”他谈到那些大型连锁酒店时说。“我觉得在那里工作我会失去自我——我将无法谈论来自我家乡的食物。”
Wisdom instead joined the Ghana Food Movement (GFM), which was founded in 2019 – the year he graduated – and quickly became a champion(拥护者；捍卫者) for Indigenous(本土的；土著的) foods. He says: “We’re a community of food lovers, of believers in the potential of Ghanaian food.”
威兹德姆转而加入了加纳食品运动（GFM），该运动成立于2019年——也就是他毕业那年——他很快成为本土食品的倡导者。他说：“我们是一个美食爱好者社区，是一群相信加纳食物潜力的人。”