Posted: May 11, 2021 9:05 AM ET | Last Updated: May 11
Butter chicken is one of the recipes in the cookbook created by Lakehead international students. (dishesfromhome.uwaytbay.ca)
A group of international students enrolled at Lakehead University are using food and their cultures to reach out to the broader community of Thunder Bay, Ont.
Over the past few months, with the support of the Community Arts and Heritage Education Project (CAHEP) and the United Way of Thunder Bay, the students have been working on CookBook, an online resource that features recipes from their home countries.
Food is at the centre of the effort, the cookbook was also serves to build connections, and highlighting the students abilities and backgrounds, said Abhi Rao, project co-ordinator for CAHEP.