Recipes for Resilience

Recipes for Resilience will be a cookbook that takes you on an amazing food journey with 20 undocumented migrant women living in DC. It will include recipes that celebrate rich food traditions, and tips on building resilience and community in a new place. It will also include and know-your-rights tips and how to be a local immigrant ally. The tenor of the discourse in America today surrounding immigrants needs more voices that remind us of the universality of our stories, those of us who were born here and those who piled into a boat, car, plane, or, in extreme cases, walked to get here. Food is powerful because it evokes feelings, memories, and traditions. Gathering over food and sharing the comforting familiarity of your family’s favorite dish make the differences between us shrink. In addition to recipes, and advice from the women, this project will incorporate immigrant rights information from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and how to be an ally tips from Indivisible.The book will be translated into Spanish, available in print copies and for free download.