She Who Tastes, Knows
A memoir of food, exile and awakening
$27.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2026
Summary
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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761500121 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761500120 |
| Author: | Durkhanai Ayubi |
| Publisher: | Murdoch Books |
| Imprint: | Murdoch Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 155mm x 235mm |
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Durkhanai Ayubi
Durkhanai Ayubi is an Afghan-born writer whose body of work seeks to reclaim the stories of her motherland, explore the experience of displacement, and interrogate the limitations embedded within normalised notions of justice and power. Her book Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen received global acclaim, winning international awards including from the Food Writers Guild and the Art of Eating.
She has been featured in national and global media, spanning TV, print, podcasts and radio, including in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post and beyond. She has worked extensively in the arts, including contributing to the curation of national literary festivals. She is a Lifelong Fellow of the Atlantic Institute, a social justice-focused organisation based at Oxford University. Here, her work takes on global dimensions, with her research creating frameworks for transformative justice with narrative reclamation at its heart.
Her next book, She Who Tastes, Knows, is forthcoming. It asks, through a lens of food and peering into the unseen, what more is possible when stories and histories are returned to a people.
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