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She Who Tastes, Knows: A Memoir of Food, Exile and Awakening (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781761500121)
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xTo truly understand things, we need to know them. We need to taste them.
This is a story of how food connects us all - not only at the table, but to each other's cultures and histories. Durkhanai Ayubi was born in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and her and her family became refugees when she was a small child. She's grown to see her ancestral lands be misunderstood as a desolate warzone 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. Growing up 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. Years on, and following Afghanistan's systemic collapse in 2021, Durkhanai realised that it was time to revisit those histories, and to tell the untold stories that can help shape a more optimistic future. She Who Tastes, Knows is an expansive history of Durkhanai's homeland and a vivid, moving story 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. Each chapter of the book draws on a particular ingredient of importance to Durkhanai's cultural identity, 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. In our modern world that can feel so disjointed, this book shows us - with timeless prescience - how new possibilities for connection are just under the surface, waiting to bloom.Author: Durkhanai Ayubi
ISBN-10: 1761500120
ISBN-13: 9781761500121
Publisher: Murdoch Books
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2026
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.02w x 0.68d
By Durkhanai Ayubi
xDurkhanai Ayubi is an Afghan-born writer, whose body of work seeks reclamation of the stories of her motherland, exploration of the experience of displacement, and interrogation of the limitations embedded within normalized notions of justice and power. Her book Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen received global acclaim, winning international awards including from the Food Writers Guild and the Art of Eating prize. She has been featured in national and global media, spanning TV, print, podcasts and radio, including in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post and beyond. She has worked extensively in the arts, including contributing to the curation of national literary festivals. She is a Lifelong Fellow of the Atlantic Institute, a social justice focused Fellowship based at Oxford University, where her work takes on global dimensions. Her research here has involved creating frameworks for transformative justice with narrative reclamation at its heart. Her book She Who Tastes, Knows asks through a lens of food and peering into the unseen what more is possible when stories and histories are returned to a people.
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