Hey, it's Dan here with another reheat for you. Now this one first aired in 2017 as part of a larger series called Your Mom's Food,

so it feels appropriate ahead of Mother's Day. The overall series was about the complications that come up when we try to pass our food culture on from one generation to the next.

The episode we're sharing today was part one in the series and it focuses on adoption.

I'll talk with parents who adopted kids from other countries

about how they use food to connect their children to their culture of origin.

And we'll explore what happens when those kids grow up

and feel like maybe it wasn't enough. I hope you find it meaningful.

If you have an episode you'd like us to pull out of the deep freezer of the Sporkful's archives,

please send me a message at hello at sporkful.com. Thanks and enjoy this week's reheat.

So I made the Dorawatt,

which is the chicken stew, and then I made the Dorowatt which is the chicken stew and then I made I'm going to have to look at the names

because I just use their English names. This is Mary Heffernan. We're in her kitchen in suburban

Long Island where Mary's cooking up Ethiopian food.

Now this isn't the food she grew up eating.

She cooks it because she has two adopted daughters who were born in Ethiopia.

And then lastly we're going to try to make an Injero bread, which I've tried a couple of times and really haven't been that successful.

So I've done a little more research.

Mary does this a couple times a year. Her daughters are 11 and 13 now. I'm Dinkness and I'm Teakab. And you are sisters.

Mm-hmm. What's going on today? What is this event? Tell me about it. Well like once a month or so we have some of our African friends come over and it's just like a time for our parents and us to like get together together since we've gone through the same things.

Like what?

Like we've all been adopted and all of our parents are like single women and so yeah.

What do you look forward to about these get-togethers?

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