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Our latest blog: Creating social bonds across cultures through cooking and story telling - is inspired by our recent a year long project with the Camden Borough of Sanctuary. In collaboration with Dr Hanna Baumann of the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, in a study which focussed on migrants access to public services, FEAST contributed to the project by organising a monthly community cooking sessions, where refugees designed and cooked a menu of their choosing, creating meals from different cultures for community members. In this blog, we explore how food can be a starting point for conversations, memory and social connections. Bridging cultures through cooking and the stories around preparing food, creating social bonds across cultures through cooking and story telling. Experiences through the project drew different memories of preparing food from participants. Such as when designing the menu, one participant, Jessica, drew inspiration from her grandmother’s recipes – notably her pumpkin dhal – recalling fond memories of family gatherings and shared meals at her grandmother’s house. 🔗 Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/eNk3h3ss - Written by Harry Yeatman, FEAST Chef & Kitchen Supervisor London Borough of Camden Likewise Somers Town Community Association (STCA)