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On November 2 at noon, we’ll premiere a brand-new Homegrown Foodways video, “Folklife, Foodways and Women’s Empowerment in Afghanistan with Nasrin Rafiq.” The video will be at the link at noon on November 2.
“Folklife, Foodways and Women’s Empowerment in Afghanistan with Nasrin Rafiq” highlights the work of Nasrin Rafiq, a longtime director of USAID’s women’s empowerment programs in Afghanistan, who moved to the U.S. in 2017.
In the film, she talks about the ways traditional arts and knowledge fueled economic development for Afghanistan’s women, and how specialty dishes like Qabuli Pulao and Shir Berenj reinforce community values. She joins host Carolina Moratti, of the Share Your Foodways initiative of the Division of Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Arts Institute of Middlesex County, NJ, to demonstrate how to make Qabuli Pulao and Dogh, an evening yogurt drink. We’ll join her at an outdoor brick oven, where she makes bread and demonstrates the technique in crafting Bolani, flat bread stuffed with potatoes.
The American Folklife Center’s Homegrown Foodways in Central New Jersey film series is a collaboration with folklorist Sally Van de Water and colleagues at the Division of Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Arts Institute of Middlesex County, NJ, where Van de Water is Folklife Programs Manager. The series highlights in three films the many ways that foodways are essential to create, reinforce, and reinvent community.
The video will be embedded in a blog post at Folklife Today. At noon on November 2, you’ll find it at the link below. If you visit the link before that, you can explore the blog, and then subscribe so you’ll receive notification of the film when it becomes available.