Prepared by Auburn Diversity Services Inc, its staff and community members
Food is culture. While satisfying our taste buds and desire for the irresistible delicious, food is a wonderful way to learn about people and their cultures. Especially, food serves as an important means to retain cultural identities of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Auburn Diversity Services Inc., as a community based, non-profit organisation is committed to the principles of multiculturalism. We are willing to be a cultural messenger to widely promote cultures from the entire world. This multicultural cookbook has been produced to provide a place for people from diverse backgrounds to share with others their identities, cultures and stories behind the food. The recipes in this book were prepared by ordinary members from communities who use them in their daily lives and on special occasions. These ordinary community members are cultural inheritors and they have become cultural communicators.
For readers and food lovers, we hope this book is useful in terms of the authentic recipes you may want to use to enrich your daily meals on the table. For cultural advocates, we hope this book is enlightening in terms of reflected cultures which you may be interested in exploring.
This book is not possible without support from the Scanlon Foundation.