Ogbe is also buying and breaking down whole cows and goats for her restaurant and catering customers. “Basically, all our ingredients come from different parts of Nigeria because we serve different parts of Nigeria not just one culture,” she says. To bring these flavors of Nigerian cuisine to Oakland, Ogbe has vendors back in Nigeria who ship her ingredients over here. A Jollof rice and plantain plate with tender greens and a fish to top it all of at Ruth's Buka. Ogbe carries this same spirit of regional diversity at her buka, providing diners with dishes from Nigeria’s delta region, as well as Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba specialties. At bukas, the menu is a visual one - pots simmer with different specialties from across the nation and folks make combinations as they please from what is in front of them. In Nigeria, a buka refers to casual dining spots that function as social hubs as much as eateries, often spilling out of open-view kitchens into the street. First cooking out of her home and later running a catering business out of a commercial kitchen in Oakland, she has served at weddings and parties for the Nigerian and larger West African community in the Bay Area.Īt Ruth’s Buka, she’s had the autonomy of space - a kitchen all her own where she can maintain her catering business while her customers can dine in and socialize in the front. Though Ogbe’s restaurant is only one of three Nigerian restaurants in the East Bay (Miliki is nearby in the Laurel and Golden Safari in neighboring Hayward), it doesn’t necessarily account for catering-only and informal kitchens that folks run out of their homes in the area. Ruth Ogbe's mother, Maria Ejuwa, prepares Jollof rice at the family run Nigerian restaurant. “I always had it in my mind like when I'm ready, that's what I'm gonna do,” she says. When Ogbe first moved to Oakland from Lagos in 1998, she couldn’t find any Nigerian restaurants to eat at when she didn’t want to cook, so she eventually opened her own to fill that hole. Opened five years ago in October of 2015, Ruth’s Buka sits on the corner of a quiet stretch of Foothill Boulevard in East Oakland in a neighborhood of homes, mosques and churches.

Chapter 4 Boaz and Ruth are married and Ruth conceives a son named Obed, the grandfather of the great King David, in the lineage of Christ our Messiah.For those not as familiar with the menu at Ruth’s Buka, you’d see a list of specialties from all over Nigeria starting with the crowd-pleasing Jollof rice to a variety of stews from Egusi to bitter leaf and pepper soup featuring your choice of fish, chicken, beef or goat.

Ruth obeys Naomi and asks for her rights and Boaz agrees but mentions that he must first be sure there are no others with first rights.

In chapter 3, Naomi encourages Ruth to seek marriage with Boaz as a kinsman redeemer.

Boaz out of compassion and obedience to the law allows Ruth to glean but also leaves extra grain for her purposely.

Chapter 2 we see Ruth gleaning in the fields of Naomi’s relative Boaz.

Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God” (1:16). “But Ruth said, 'Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge.

Naomi decides to return to her home land of Bethlehem alone, however, Ruth insists on staying with her and adopting Naomi’s God as her own. In chapter 1, Ruth remains loyal to her mother-in-law Naomi after the death of her husband and in-laws.

It shows the difference between what happens when a nation does not follow in obedience to the covenant of God (Judges), and when God’s people follow in faithfulness within the covenant (Ruth). Its purpose was to demonstrate the kind of love, and faithfulness that God desires for us. Key personalities include Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz. The author was anonymous but some believe it was perhaps written by Samuel the prophet however, it is unlikely that he was alive when this book was written. The timeline of this book is intertwined during the period of the Judges. The book of Ruth is the Narrative of a love story, yet also has some important Genealogy.

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