Your Favourites' Favourites: Yumi Stynes and Durkhanai Ayubi

In Your Favourites’ Favourites, our most-loved writers introduce one of their favourite authors.

Podcaster and author Yumi Stynes introduces Durkhanai Ayubi, renowned Afghan restaurateur and author of Parwana: Recipes and stories from an Afghan kitchen, and her debut memoir She Who Tastes, Knows. After leaving Afghanistan as a refugee with her family, Durkhanai’s connection to her birthplace and culture was through food. In this expansive memoir, she shares her love of her home country and its rich and diverse history.

Find shared understanding with Durkhanai in conversation with Yumi.