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Recipes from every continent, with the history behind them and the chefs who grew up making them. Cook along in your own language.

One email when the app opens. Nothing else, ever.

Cooking from

  • CameroonNdoléAfrica
  • SenegalYassaAfrica
  • MoroccoLamb TagineAfrica
  • ItalyCacio e PepeEurope
  • JapanTonkotsu RamenAsia
  • GreeceGrilled Sea BassEurope
  • NigeriaJollof RiceAfrica
  • ThailandMassaman CurryAsia
  • EthiopiaDoro WatAfrica
  • IndiaRogan JoshAsia
Features

Everything a recipe leaves out

The part that gets lost between a kitchen and a printed page: why the dish exists, and how it is actually made.

01 – The story

The story, not just the steps

Every dish carries the history behind it. Why the onions cook for forty minutes in a yassa, what the bitterleaf is doing in a ndole, who was making this before it had a name.

Chefs – 02

Chefs who grew up with it

Recipes come from people who cook them at home, not from a test kitchen approximating them. Follow a chef and their reels land in your feed.

03 – Reels

Video that shows the hand movement

Some things do not survive being written down. Short video from the chefs themselves, tied to the dish it belongs to.

Kitchens – 04

Kitchens you can talk in

Every country has a group where people cooking the same thing compare notes. Ask the chef in the open, where the answer helps everyone.

05 – Languages

Six languages, one set of names

The interface speaks English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Dish names stay in their own language, because Ndole is Ndole everywhere.

Trial – 06

A week on the house

Every country, every recipe and every chat, free for seven days. Then it is yours for the price of a coffee, and you can stop whenever you like.

How it works

Four steps, and one of them is eating

From the map to the pan to the group that tells you what you got wrong.

Step 01

Pick a country

Start where you are curious. The map opens on every continent, one country at a time.

Step 02

Read why it exists

Before the ingredient list, the story: where the dish comes from, what it was for, and which part of it people argue about.

Step 03

Cook along

Steps, ingredients and video from the chef, in one place, in the language you set.

Step 04

Say how it went

Post a photo in the country kitchen. Somebody who has made it fifty times will tell you what to change.

The whole table, in your pocket

Countries from every continent, the chefs who cook them, and the conversation around every dish.

Plans

One plan, and a week to decide

Everything Meymi has, from the first minute. Seven days free, then weekly, monthly or yearly.

The catalogue

What is in there today

New countries join all the time, each with its chefs and its kitchen.

7

Days free, to taste everything

6

Continents, from Africa to Oceania

6

Languages, interface and recipes

Voices

What people say it changed

Cooks who came for one dish and stayed for the country behind it.

  • I finally got the ndole right.

    I had made it four times from a blog and it was never it. The chef explains what the bitterleaf is doing, and suddenly the forty minutes make sense.
    Awa N.Douala
  • The kitchen is the best part.

    You ask a question about a dish and somebody who cooks it every week answers. Not a comment section. An actual kitchen.
    Marco R.Bologna
  • It reads like a person wrote it.

    Most recipe apps are a list of quantities. This one tells you what the dish is for, and who was making it before anyone wrote it down.
    Sofia M.Madrid
  • My mother approved.

    That is the highest bar there is. She watched the video, said the hands were right, and asked me to make it again on Sunday.
    Kenji T.Osaka
  • Six languages actually means six.

    The story is translated, the steps are translated, and the dish is still called what it is called. That is the correct decision.
    Lucie D.Lyon
FAQ

Questions people actually ask

And a few we would rather answer here than in an email.

Is there a free trial?

Seven days of everything, through the App Store, before the first charge. Cancel during the week and nothing is billed.

Are the recipes translated?

The app is in six languages, and everything you need in order to cook is in the one you chose: the description, the cultural story, the quantities and the steps. Names are not translated, because a name is a name. Ndole is Ndole in every language. When a name is written in a script you may not read, it keeps that name and carries an English one in brackets beside it. An ingredient with no equivalent in your kitchen keeps its name too, and we explain what it is rather than swapping it for something more familiar.

Who writes the recipes?

Chefs who cook them, and the Meymi kitchen. Every chef is reviewed by a person before their work appears publicly. Some dishes are also sourced from open recipe databases and then checked and attributed by hand.

Can I message a chef directly?

No, and that is deliberate. Conversation happens in the country and dish kitchens, in the open, where the answer to your question helps the next person with the same one.

How do I cancel?

From your App Store or Google Play subscription settings, the same as any other app. You keep access until the period you paid for runs out, then the app closes until you subscribe again.

Can I cook something and share it?

Yes. Post photos and comments in the kitchens. To publish recipes and reels of your own you sign up as a chef, which unlocks the tools straight away, and your work becomes publicly visible once our team reviews the account.

Taste the world

Countries from every continent, the chefs who cook them, and the story behind every dish. Seven days free.