Women chefs take center stage in Athens Refugee Food Festival

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To mark World Refugee Day 2018, the Refugee Food Festival came back to Athens from 19 to 24 June 2018 as well as in 13 other cities worldwide, including Brussels, Madrid, Paris, San Francisco, New York and Cape Town. A special Refugee Food Festival event was also held at Nan restaurant on Lesvos island. Over one week, six restaurants in Athens supported the refugee cause by opening their kitchens to six refugee chefs living in Greece, including four women. Seinat kicked off the festival introducing Athenians to Eritrean gastronomic culture at Blue Fish restaurant, while at the same time Mahboubeh merged Iranian with Greek flavours at Seychelles restaurant. Turia reinvented Moroccan dishes and gracefully paired them with the innovative cuisine of Scala Vinoteca wine restaurant. Roaa blended her flavourful Iraqi and Arabic dishes with Mama Roux’s multi-cultural cuisine. The 2018 edition of the Refugee Food Festival, aimed to bring Athenians together around the table and showcase culinary skills of refugees as well as to help accelerate refugee chefs’ professional integration. The Refugee Food Festival is organized by volunteers with the support of Food Sweet Food (the founding NGO) and local offices of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. In Athens, the festival was made possible by the enthusiasm and energy of the Athens Insider team. The project is also made possible by the help of many local actors. For the 2018 edition of the Refugee Food Festival in Athens, the Greek Council for Refugees, SolidarityNow, the Melissa Network of Migrant Women in Greece and Options Food Lab, contributed to making the festival happen.

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Published to Youtube on: 03/07/2018

Archived on: 08/10/2025

Original URL (may no longer be available): https://youtube.com/watch?v=ww36uHQRq3o