But when she arrived, Abena was surprised how much things had changed.

但当阿贝娜到达加纳时，她惊讶于事情发生了如此大的变化。

Abena's grandparents made fufu the traditional way, using ingredients like yam and green bananas called plantains.

阿贝娜的祖父母用传统的方法制作福福，使用蕃薯和被称为车前草的青香蕉等食材。

Abena was taken aback by the changes in Ghana's food culture – she felt shocked and surprised.

阿贝娜对加纳饮食文化的变化感到吃惊——她感到震惊和惊讶。

For Abena, this represented an unwelcome departure from ancestral ways of cooking, and she decided that something had to be done.

对阿贝娜来说，这代表着人们正在背离祖传的烹饪方式，让人难以接受，她决定必须做点什么。

Abena was taken aback by the changes in Ghana's food culture. She felt shocked and surprised.

阿贝纳为加纳饮食文化的变化感到震惊。

Abena travelled around Ghana to document traditional recipes to record information about them by writing them down, or taking photos, before they were lost forever.

阿贝娜周游加纳来记录传统食谱 ——在它们永远丢失之前，通过写下来或拍照来记载有关它们的信息。

Her mother's cooking gave Abena a love of traditional recipes so much so that five years ago, she moved back to Ghana to rediscover her country's food culture.

她母亲的烹饪让阿贝娜爱上了传统食谱， 以至于五年前，她搬回加纳去重新找寻其国家的饮食文化。

If her story has inspired you to find out about your own country's traditional recipes, or discover more about Ghanaian cooking, you can read more on Abena's website, Living the Ancestral Way.

如果她的故事激发了你去了解自己国家的传统食谱，或者去发现更多关于加纳烹饪的知识， 你可以在阿贝娜的网站“Living the Ancestral Way”上阅读更多内容。

Abena was so taken aback by the loss of know-how about Ghana's traditional recipes and ingredients in the towns and cities, that she decided she had to do something, and set off to rural areas on a fact-finding tour.

在加纳的乡镇和城市，人们丧失了对加纳传统食谱和食材的实际经验，阿贝娜感到如此吃惊， 以至于她决定要做点什么，于是她前往农村地区进行实地考察。

Abena was so taken aback about the loss of know-how about Ghana's traditional recipes and ingredients in the towns and cities, that she decided she had to do something, and set off to rural areas on a fact-finding tour.

阿贝纳对加纳人民背弃传统食物制作工艺和传统食材感到非常震惊，她决定做点什么，于是前往农村进行实地调查。