‘We have no sad stories to tell’: Hawa Hassan’s new cookbook explores the meaning of home in the midst of displacement

‘We have no sad stories to tell’: Hawa Hassan’s new cookbook explores the meaning of home in the midst of displacement

Hawa Hassan was only 4-years-old when fighting forced her and her family from their home in Somalia. Hassan spent the next three years in Kenya, where some of her earliest memories were of running around tents in a refugee camp with her siblings and helping her mother stock the goods store she’d opened there. When she was seven, Hassan’s mother sent her to live with family friends in Seattle. It would be another 15 years before she saw her famil…

Hawa Hassan’s Latest Project Is More Than a Cookbook. It’s a Radical Documentation of Displacement.

James Beard Award-winning author and chef Hawa Hassan charts the culinary traditions that define us in her new book.

Thousands of people came to Wittlager Land from the former German eastern regions after the Second World War. Some were put in barracks, others in peasant families – without their consent. But two settlements show how living together can succeed. Even today.