A Refugee Food Festival showcasing the cooking talents of refugee chefs from five different countries has won the hearts of Geneva residents by connecting through the food of their national cuisines. Force behind the festivalLouis Martin, the co-founder of Food Sweet Food, a nongovernmental organization that initiated the Refugee Food Festival in 2016 in partnership with the UN refugee agency, says the project has two main objectives. That, he says, inspired him and his Food Sweet Food partner, Marine Mandrila to create the festival. Schmitt says one of the great aspects of the festival is the collaboration between the restaurant’s usual chef and the refugee chef. “The chefs who have invited the refugee chefs,” she said, “they have all told us that they want to start again and that they learned something.

Source: Ethiopian News October 15, 2017 10:18 UTC