没有人像奶奶一样做饭,但是不幸的是,媒体并不经常促进奶奶的烹饪在欧洲。索马里厨师哈瓦·哈桑(Hawa Hassan), 沿着和作家朱莉娅·图申(Julia Turshen),,,,铲球精美食谱中的那个在比比的厨房里,这向我们介绍了来自八个不同东非国家的一系列可爱的奶奶,所有这些国家都触及了印度洋。What’s so great about this book—beyond the fact that the grandmas themselves are front and center—is that the recipes are straightforward, generally don’t require a specialized pantry (beyond a selection of spices), and tell a story of culture, immigration, and colonialism. While on one page you’ll find a recipe for Eritrean doro wat (stewed chicken legs with berbere spices and eggs), later in the book lies instructions from Tanzanian grandmother Ma Vicky for what is essentially an Italian-American lasagna, a dish which speaks to the fact that East Africa was heavily colonized by Italy, and that Ma Vicky lives in the United States (and enjoys lasagna). It’s a beautiful book highlighting a part of Africa not often written about in U.S. cookbooks, and it’s worth your time.