Our Table of Memories
In 2015 Merna established an intergenerational collaboration with Project Feast, an organization that serves refugee women cooks, that was located at the Tukwila Community Center and is now in Kent, WA. This anthology contains beloved homeland recipes from the young people in the project and the Project Feast cooks. It celebrates cultural food through art, memory and poetry and also addresses food scarcity and the flavors of home that are missed and carried across borders.
Our Table of Memories invites readers to consider the spicy, delicious connections between food, poetry and stories. The food-themed poetry and recipes are part of an exciting first-time collaboration between Project Feast and the Stories of Arrival: Youth Voices Poetry Project, edited and directed by Merna Ann Hecht. Both serve to help refugees and immigrants share their strengths and experiences, and by doing so, literally and metaphorically nourish the larger community.