Hello and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum and today we have an interview for you.

Hello and welcome to Sabre Protection of I Heart Radio.

I'm Annie Reese and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum and today we have an interview for you with

howa Hassan. Yes she is the CEO and founder of Boss Boss Somali foods which

makes these awesome hot sauces.

And recently, on October 13th, she debuted her first cookbook,

which was this absolutely gorgeous owed to East African cuisine and all of the

grandmothers behind it are BBs and it's called in BBs kitchen and it's

also co-authored by Julia Tertion and it was just a lovely

conversation I got some seasoning from Lauren out of it that was delicious it's a it's a really beautiful piece of work. Yeah, yes. Oh my gosh. And the last time that Hawa was on the show back in 2018, she and Julia were talking about equity at the table or eat,

which is a project that fights gender and racial discrimination in the food industry by helping

foster connections among among members of

that community who've been historically at a disadvantage.

Yeah and and you can see, how important that is to her in this book as well.

And it's, I just looked how it was set up where it's like context of where these recipes come from,

it's history, and then you do have these interviews

with these women about what they grew up eating

and what feels like home and what recipes

remind them of home.

Yeah and just these stories and these voices

that we don't we don't typically hear especially here in the United States.

Yeah and when asked about this book, Hawa said my number one goal and all the work I

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