‘We have no sad stories to tell’: Hawa Hassan’s new cookbook explores the meaning of home in the midst of displacement

May 12 2025 by Fast Company

‘Setting a Place for Us’ looks at food traditions in countries better known to outsiders for civil strife than rich ingredients and complex flavors.

Hawa Hassan was only 4-years-old when fighting forced her and her family from their home in Somalia. Hassan spent the next three years in Kenya, where some of her earliest memories were of running around tents in a refugee camp with her siblings and helping her mother stock the goods store she’d opened there.

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