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Christina
MacGillivray

MYGREAT COOK BOOK

Author and Creative Content Director : Christina MacGillivray

RECIPE BOOK, UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS

Like humankind, food has an age-old history of migration and a power to connect people through shared ingredients, memories, laughter and conversations folded in along its path.

In this book, migrant women chefs share their stories of migration and how food has shaped their personal journeys. Each chef is as unique as the cuisine she creates. Together they represent diverse migrant communities from Afghanistan, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Kenya and more. While each recipe is associated with one country in this book, we recognise that various countries may share the same dishes.

UN Human Rights and Nik’s Fudo believe in the universal bonding powers of food and storytelling. Recipes are like stories. They hold a shared history, enriched by the people and ingredients that lent them their unique flavours over time and space. By sharing these recipes, we strengthen the stories that bring us together and we find ways to welcome people into our communities, to reimagine our collective future. We thank the chefs for letting us savour the richness of their recipes and stories. Each one offers an invitation to build community, share a conversation and remind us we have opportunity to welcome new people to the table every day.

We invite you to put your chef’s hat on, share a meal with a new friend and join us in celebrating food and migration.

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