About the Book: She Who Tastes, Knows: A memoir of food, exile and awakening
A beautiful, expansive memoir on food as a vital bridge between cultures, from
the internationally award-winning author of Parwana.
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
others 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. Shes
grown to see her ancestral lands be misunderstood