Our cookbook of the week is Setting a Place for Us by Hawa Hassan, a James Beard Award-winning author, TV host , and founder and CEO of Basbaas , a line of African-inspired sauces and condiments.

Jump to the recipes: malfouf ( cabbage rolls ), pupusas con curtido (filled masa flatbreads with cabbage slaw) and pili pili (hot chili sauce).

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Hawa Hassan drew on her own experiences as a refugee for her second cookbook, Setting a Place for Us. The entrepreneur travelled the world conducting interviews and researching the food cultures of eight countries affected by conflict: Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Egypt, El Salvador, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia and Yemen.

Hassan understands life as a displaced person, having fled the Somali Civil War

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