She Who Tastes, Knows : A memoir of food, exile and awakening

To 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 she and her family became refugees when she was a small child.She's 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.Living 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 tell the previously untold stories that can help shape a more optimistic future. Sh