Discover recipes that tell a story.
Food helps people stay connected to their culture, traditions and memories of home. Flavours of Hope is a digital cookbook that brings together treasured recipes and inspiring stories from ten current and former refugees who have rebuilt their lives after being forced to flee.
Packed with authentic dishes, personal stories and rich cultural traditions, this eBook is designed to inspire your cooking and bring family and friends together around the table.
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Meet the cooks
Akec, South Sudan
Akec Makur Chuot, Australia for UNHCR Ambassador and the first African woman to play in the AFLW, shares her beloved lamb shaiyah recipe with us.
Hamed, Iran
Hamed Allahyari came to Australia as an asylum seeker from Iran. After arriving, he began teaching cooking classes at a social enterprise. The work inspired him to open a cafe and restaurant in Melbourne called Salamatea, which now employes and empowers other refugees and asylum seekers.
Mariia, Ukraine
Mariia Mykytiuk fled Ukraine and now lives in Australia with her children. Preparing Ukrainian dishes helps them remember their lives before the war – weekends with the family spent together cooking and sharing stories with one another.
Raghda, Syria
Raghda Al Zahlawi and her family found safety in Jordan after escaping the war in Syria. Now living in Amman, Raghda cooks and sells Syrian dishes to help provide for her family. This small business has helped her pay for rent and send her children to school.
Fatima, Afghanistan
Fatima Yousufi lives in Melbourne and captains the Afghan Women’s National Football Team. She shared with us her family’s delicious recipe for bolani – Afghan stuffed flatbread.
Yarrie, Sierra Leone
Yarrie Bangura, Australia for UNHCR Ambassador and founder of Aunty's Ginger Tonic, shares her beloved family recipe for jollof rice from Sierra Leone.
Nayran, Syria
Nayran Tabiei fled the Syrian city of Damascus after civil war broke out. She now lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she runs the Flavours of Syria café in St Kilda. She also hosts cooking classes, has a catering business and cooks meals for people who are homeless.
Mouna, Syria
Mouna Khaled is from Syria. She was living in the capital, Damascus, when civil war broke out. Her daughter then fell seriously ill, so they moved to Jordan as refugees to seek medical treatment in safety. Mouna also started a cooking business at home to support her family. She now dreams of opening her own restaurant.
Vanja, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vanja Bulut was born in Bosnia. She was a young girl when war broke out and food became very difficult to find. When Vanja and her family arrived in Australia, she started learning to cook traditional Balkan cuisine from her mum. Vanja now works as a barrister with a focus on employment, industrial and discrimination law.
Thuy, Vietnam
Thuy Dang and her family fled the war in Vietnam by boat when she was 13 or 14 years old. They lived in a UNHCR refugee camp in Malaysia before receiving humanitarian visas to come to Australia. Food keeps the family connected, with Thuy making her specialty, pho, for the different generations.
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