New Cookbook Shares Immigrants’ Stories of Survival and Resilience

The recipes in this cookbook represent cuisines from 32 countries.

Somali Sambusa, stuffed triangular pastries made from a recipe included in "Kitchens of Hope" by Minnesota authors Linda S. Svitak, Christin Jaye Eaton and Lee Svitak Dean. Jeff Wheeler/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS

By Sharyn Jackson The Minnesota Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS—There are recipes representing 32 countries in a new cookbook, and the authors have the pantries to prove it. The Peruvian pepper paste aji panca, timur peppercorns from Nepal, Vietnamese ngo gai or culantro, black jeera seeds for lamb biryani—they’re all a new part of their cooking repertoire now.