{"product_id":"she-who-tastes-knows-a-memoir-of-food-exile-and-awakening-by-durkhanai-ayubi-9781761500121","title":"She Who Tastes, Knows : A memoir of food, exile and awakening","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo truly understand things, we need to know them. We need to taste them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a story of how food connects us all — not only at the table but to each other's cultures and histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDurkhanai Ayubi was born in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and she and her family became refugees when she was a small child. She has grown to see her ancestral lands be misunderstood as a desolate war zone of helpless people, with no history or culture worthy of mention, when the reality is in fact steeped in rich, complex histories of incredible cultural significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiving in Australia, Durkhanai's only tangible connection to the histories of her homeland was through food, first through cooking with her family, and then as an owner of her much-loved award-winning Adelaide family restaurant, Parwana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYears on, and following Afghanistan's systemic collapse in 2021, Durkhanai realised that it was time to revisit those histories and tell the previously untold stories that can help shape a more optimistic future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"She Who Tastes, Knows\" is an expansive history of Durkhanai's homeland and a vivid, moving story about what it truly means to understand another's culture. Through stories of food, family, belonging and migration, the book traverses cultural boundaries, weaving a tapestry of dignity, empathy and understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter draws on a particular ingredient important to Durkhanai's cultural identity, and explores their life cycles to uncover unseen histories of Afghan culture, the complexities of migrant and refugee experience, and how we as a society might work towards unifying our disparate cultures and ways of seeing the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our modern world, which can feel so disjointed, this book shows us — with timeless prescience — how new possibilities for connection are just under the surface, waiting to bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Durkhanai Ayubi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56895110349173,"sku":"9781761500121","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781761500121.jpg?v=1773318147","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/she-who-tastes-knows-a-memoir-of-food-exile-and-awakening-by-durkhanai-ayubi-9781761500121","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}