Flavors From Afar Uniquely Highlights Refugee Chefs and Their Best Recipes.

The ouze — a Lebanese dish of spiced, roasted lamb shanks over rice scattered with pine nuts and slivered almonds — served at Flavors From Afar tasted very familiar.

The LA Restaurant Helmed By Home Cooks From Around the World.

The pandemic has ushered in an era that has proved to be the hardest time to own and operate a restaurant. But that hasn’t stopped Meymuna Hussein-Cattan from opening one the same week Mayor Eric Garcetti issued Safer At Home orders for the city of Los Angeles in the third week of March.

Recipes from refugees and asylum seekers: Bill Addison reviews Flavors from Afar.

The beauty of Los Angeles is that one doesn’t have to travel far to taste flavors from around the world. This week, Bill Addison visits Little Ethiopia, where Flavors from Afar opened in March 2020. Addison calls the concept “unique and rewardingly daunting.”

At This Sunny Neighborhood Joint in L.A., Refugees Run the Kitchen.

In Person of Interest we talk to the people catching our eye right now about what they’re doing, eating, reading, and loving. Next up is Meymuna Hussein-Cattan, who runs the Tiyya Foundation and sister restaurant Flavors From Afar.

Flavors From Afar Rotates Menus from Different Refugee Chefs, Including One From Eritrea.

From Egypt to South Africa, these restaurants are exemplars of African food less common in Los Angeles

This Month’s Founder Story is About Meymuna Hussein-Cattan, the Founder of Flavors From Afar.

Sharing a meal is a delicious opportunity for cultural exchange and unity. Flavors from Afar’s story began in 1984, Meymuna was 3 years old when her family immigrated to Southern California as refugees from Ethiopia.