"So I came here in September 2011, just a few months after the uprising started. as a refugee - I was lucky enough to get a scholarship to do my masters degree here in London," Azzam says. She's mostly a filmmaker and theater producer, not a professional chef, but food is what occupies her when she's not working. The book gathers their stories, along with the recipes that remind them of home.Īzzam grew grew up in southwestern Syria, near Jordan, and moved to the U.K. For the book they interviewed Syrian refugees scattered around Europe and the Middle East. So the recipes that bring them back to the places they left behind are precious.ĭina Mousawi and Itab Azzam are the authors of a new cookbook, Our Syria: Recipes From Home. Families often had to abandon the things that reminded them of home.
As millions of people have fled Syria, they haven't been able to take much with them on their journey.
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