At New Arrivals Supper Club, a communal feast prepared by immigrants from some of the world’s most troubled countries, food provides the chance to share the breadcrumbs of newly settled refugees' history.
the first iteration of the Trump administration’s travel ban in 2017. Some were detained upon arrival or had their visas revoked. Multiple recipients were denied boarding for their flights to the United States, the International Refugee Assistance Project said.
Naseema Kashefi, left, cooks vegetable samosas with her husband, Bashir, and son, Haroon, 2, at their Anaheim apartment. Top: Naseema Kashefi, left, cooked Afghan food for her son, Haroon, 2, husband, Bashir, and Miry Whitehill, founder of Miry's List. Left: Naseema Kashefi cooks vegetable samosas with her husband and son at their Anaheim apartment. Right: Naseema Kashefi plans to pass on her mother’s recipes to her daughter, Horia.
Surrounded by the ingredients of her mother’s recipe, Kashefi couldn’t help but think of her life in Afghanistan and her parents, four brothers and two sisters — all left behind.She has two children of her own now, a 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son who was born here, she said, and it’s better for them to grow up in California.
A dinner “makes giving so easy. You immediately know it goes directly to them,” Pan, 44, said as she tucked into a bowl of spicy red lentil dal. Whitehill started Miry’s List in 2016, after she helped a refugee family from Syria sponsored by a friend’s church. Bashir Kashefi holds a photo of himself, center, when he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.When the Kashefis arrived in Orange County, a caseworker set them up in a cramped one-bedroom apartment with another family. They lasted a week.
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