On what she makes when she feels homesick You have this kind of feeling of loss, and then it's only when you cook your own - the food that you grew up eating, that you feel this kind of relief that you've almost transported back for that moment of time that you're eating.

because I felt like cooking Syrian food was the only thing that kept me connected. I think my love for food got bigger when I moved to the U.K. This highlights below have been edited for length and clarity. In Our Syria, Azzam writes, 'As the last of my family contemplate leaving behind our little village, this is my Noah's Ark - a capsule containing the intoxicating taste of home.' '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.

Our Syria by Dina Mousawi