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Cooking is a message, says Racha Abou Alchamat, the brains trust behind Racha s Syrian Kitchen, and we are lucky to hear it. Along with friend and kitchen partner Nidal Alali, they run a Syrian catering and events service in Sydney that shares dishes from her homeland and spotlights the Syrian migrant story. After kicking things off with the joys of real knafeh , which she explains hinges on the quality of the cheese, must be cooked with ghee and be made and served straight away, she pauses then jumps up to stir cardamom into a pot of black coffee bubbling over the stove. Insisting I try a cup, she smiles and says, this is how we coffee, this is the Syrian way . ....
Abdulghani Alrahmo thought he had a good life in Syria. He spent his days as an electrician, dealing with voltages, chargers and inverters. Alrahmo shared his home in Aleppo, near the Turkish border, with his wife Fatima and six children: Raghad, Rawan, Ahmad, Sami, Ghazal and Osama. [It] was so easy and nice living with family and friends away from complexities of life, he says. The Syrian war, which started in 2011, upended all of that. We decided to move to Turkey to save my family and also to find treatment for my son [Osama] who has glaucoma [an eye condition], he says. ....