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A review by brnycx
Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen by Durkhanai Ayubi
4.0
"Finding sanctuary gave us the means necessary to dream again, but these dreams were deeply attached to the mourning of all that had been lost ... On lands far from our ancestral home, the profundity of remembering through food would bind us."
I read a lot of cookbooks and never usually add them to Goodreads, but this one felt different.
Parwana is a restaurant in Australia run by a refugee family from Afghanistan. The book is beautifully put together and a visual feast to leaf through. But it's more than a cookbook - it tells the history of Afghanistan, the personal history of the author's family, and how they use food to keep the memory of their country alive from overseas.
I read a lot of cookbooks and never usually add them to Goodreads, but this one felt different.
Parwana is a restaurant in Australia run by a refugee family from Afghanistan. The book is beautifully put together and a visual feast to leaf through. But it's more than a cookbook - it tells the history of Afghanistan, the personal history of the author's family, and how they use food to keep the memory of their country alive from overseas.