How a cookbook brought Melbourne’s inner-city public housing community together

Abstract

A cookbook project with residents of Melbourne’s public housing towers seeks to rebuild trust after last year’s hard lockdown
It features traditional recipes from Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea
Some say a silver lining of the lockdown has been greater engagement and resources for the community.
“[We were] trying to find ways of engagement and connection and food was one of the topics that were common between us and the resident.”