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Book to Cook! Watch Hawa Hassan make Lebanese Fried Cauliflower

Drizzled with tahini, Lebanese fried cauliflower, or arnabeet mekleh, is easy and delicious.

By Laurie Ochoa
, Betty Hallock, Danielle Dorsey, Stephanie Breijo, Mark E. Potts and Yadira Flores
Author Hawa Hassan’s newest cookbook is “Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience and Community from Eight Countries Impacted by War.” Hassan was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and fled with her family amid war in 1990. They settled into a refugee camp in Kenya, where her mother set up a goods store stocked with cooking ingredients. “This is when I learn what grace looks like,” writes Hassan, who eventually moved to Seattle.

Drawing from her experiences as a refugee, she wrote her second cookbook (her first was James Beard award-winning “In Bibi’s Kitchen”) to explore countries and communities facing ongoing unrest, leaving its mark on culinary traditions. Hassan stopped by the L.A. Times Kitchen to cook arnabeet mekleh, Lebanese fried cauliflower with tahini. Get the recipe.

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Laurie Ochoa

Laurie Ochoa is general manager of Food at the Los Angeles Times.

Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times.

Danielle Dorsey

Danielle Dorsey is a senior editor and writer of guides for the Food section. Previously, she was the senior West Coast editor at Thrillist, where she covered food, drink and travel across the California region. She grew up across San Diego and Riverside and has happily called Los Angeles home for more than 15 years.

Stephanie Breijo

Stephanie Breijo is a reporter for the Food section and the author of its weekly news column. Previously, she served as the restaurants and bars editor for Time Out Los Angeles, and prior to that, the award-winning food editor of Richmond magazine in Richmond, Va. Born and primarily raised in Los Angeles, she believes L.A. to be the finest food city in the country and might be biased on that count but doesn’t believe she’s wrong.

Mark E. Potts

Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.

Yadira Flores

Yadira Flores is a former video editor for the Los Angeles Times who joined the newsroom through Metpro in November 2017. Flores graduated with a bachelor of science in filmmaking and has edited online content for Amazon, the American Cinema Editors, FilmLight, Emmy Primecuts and Moviola. She hails from El Paso, Texas.

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