She Who Tastes, Knows: A memoir of food, exile and awakening

To truly understand things, we need to know them. We need to taste them.

This is a story of how food connects us all – not only at the table, but to each other's cultures and histories. Durkhanai Ayubi was born in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and her and her family became refugees when she was a small child. She's grown to see her ancestral lands be misunderstood as a desolate warzone of helpless people, with no history or culture worthy of mention, when the reality is in fact steeped in rich, ...