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The Book Nook: Cookbooks from Cameroon to the islands of Comoros

Peak Web February 7, 2025

By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor [caption id="attachment_130691" align="alignnone" width="200"] IMAGE: Courtesy of Ten Speed Press[/caption] In Bibi’s Kitchen  Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen Available to borrow from the Vancouver Public Library  Published in 2020, this book collects recipes from Eritrean, Somalian, Kenyan, Tanzanian, Mozambican, South African, Madagascan, and Comoran bibis (grandmothers). Ma Kauthar’s mango chile sauce is a hit in this cookbook, combining the sweetness of this tender fruit with the kick of jalapeños. She uses this sauce “with every main dish, from her chicken biryani to stews, curries, and more.” In this book, you’ll also read about…

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Dale Talde’s “Asian-American” cookbook is more profound than meets the eye

Arts July 17, 2021

By: Sara Wong, Arts & Culture Editor What does it mean to be “proudly inauthentic?” Dale Talde’s cookbook, Asian-American: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from the Philippines to Brooklyn, will give you a pretty good idea. Co-authored by JJ Goode, recipes like…

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