Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 19, 2025

James Beard Award-winning Somali-American chef Hawa Hassan, talks about her new cookbook, Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community from Eight Countries Impacted by War. The book features essays and over 75 recipes that explore the intersection of food and survival in geopolitical conflict zones including Yemen, Afghanistan, Liberia and El Salvador.

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