Displaced Dishes is a cookbook featuring 34 delicious recipes, all contributed by residents of the refugee camp on Samos. Extravagant Afghan feasts to impress your friends, healthy new salad ideas from Palestine, addictive rice and coconut cakes from Burundi, crunchy almond falafel from Syria, sourdough flatbreads from Djibouti and many more: this book is full of dishes to get you excited about cooking.
The story so far…
Displaced Dishes started when Pamela Gregory decided to work with Samos Volunteers. With a background in the restaurant business, Pam found herself connecting with the residents of the Samos refugee camp through the subject of food.
She decided to start collecting people’s favourite recipes from back home, with the aim of producing a fundraising cookbook. With Pam’s ongoing work, the generosity and enthusiasm of the camp residents, and the combined efforts of Gregory Oke, Natalia Karacaoglu and Konstantin Zhukov, that aim has been realised! We’re proud to present Displaced Dishes.
Our first run of 3,000 books was printed shortly before Christmas 2018. We had an incredible response, being featured in trendy publications, becoming the most popular book at the UK Migration Museum and quickly selling out our first print run. In November 2019, we released an expanded 2nd edition, featuring two new recipes and an improved folding cover.
We’ve donated 60,000 euros and counting.
The Challah bread recipe is a beloved family food tradition shared by resident Ayed from Palestine. It makes an airy yeasted egg bread, sweet and golden. Ayed's family serves it for breakfast on special holidays.
Muhammara is a delicious dip that is featured in the Displaced Dishes cookbook. It was contributed to the project by Amran who comes from northern Syria and currently lives in Samos Refugee Camp. The dip is a Levantine and Turkish classic, and origi…
The recipes
Each recipe has been thoroughly tested and edited to make it easily accessible and ready to use. With notes on harder to find ingredients and techniques.
Most importantly all the dishes are accompanied by succinct memories and tips from the contributors themselves. You are warmly invited to share in their joy and passion for the food of their homeland.
The recipes in Displaced Dishes provide an insight into the very personal loss displacement brings. Painful separation from one’s culture, homeland and family, are all tied up with the celebration of food from home. We’re extremely grateful to the contributors for sharing these meaningful recipes.
Everyone involved in making this book, from recipe collection, editing, photographing, design and promotion has donated their time and effort for free in the hope of raising as much money for Samos Volunteers as possible. The book is testament to our collective desire to improve the living conditions of people attempting to seek refuge in Europe.
100% of profits will be donated to Samos Volunteers.
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