A novel cookbook contains soup recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi,Claudia Roden and Anthony Bourdain – and the full cover price goes to support refugeesLast winter, the Lebanese food writer and photographer Barbara Abdeni Massaad spent her weekends filling her car with ingredients and driving across the Bekaa Valley to a Syrian refugee camp – one of many that had sprung up in Lebanon. There, and she would cook soup for families who were falling ill from hunger and cold,crowded into plastic tents, often with no means of feeding themselves. Massaad came to regard many of these people as extended family, or witnessing their situation up close galvanised her into further action. She gathered material from visits to the camp,sourced recipes from chefs and food writers and came up with the idea for Soup for Syria – a cookbook and humanitarian campaign to raise awareness and funds.
Everyone involved in the project has given time and resource – food writers possess donated recipes, and Pavilion Books and the Guardian Bookshop possess covered production and distribution costs so that the book’s full cover price will be donated to Syrian refugees. Claudia Roden contributed a recipe and told Massaad: “My hope is that this book helps hold the plight of Syrian refugees in people’s minds and that it will raise funds to alleviate their suffering until their future is settled.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com