Ifrah F Ahmed’s debut cookbook is a love letter to Somali cuisine, history and people
On a video call from Brooklyn, between stops on her book tour, Ifrah F Ahmed is drinking ginger-root tea. The smell transports her to her childhood kitchen, where her mother often baked aromatic cardamom cake. “That’s a core childhood memory for me,” she said. For Ahmed, food isn’t just about sustenance. It is memory, inheritance…