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By fay.young on January 10, 2010
The aim, inspired by the World Kitchen in Leith, is to celebrate good home cooking from many cultures.
Here is fresh and spicy food to revive your appetite after Christmas and New Year. In our first World Kitchen film, Mridu Thanki welcomes us into her kitchen to show us how to cook mushrooms in cream with [...]
Posted in Leith Open Space Events, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Feasts of India, home cooking, leith open space, Mridu Thanki, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on December 10, 2009
Now click here to enjoy the film
We are in the kitchen with Mridu Thanki to taste a meal from her first cookery book, Feasts of India. On a cold Edinburgh day there are tantalising warm spicy smells coming from the pan and we are getting hungry. But it isn’t time to eat yet. While Mridu [...]
Posted in Food, Local heroes, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Feasts of India, leith open space, McDonald Road Library, Mridu Thanki, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on December 3, 2009
Here’s a chance to make a difference. Muslim women are increasingly the victims of hidden crimes of hate – verbal threats and words of abuse hurled in public places – but the crimes are rarely reported for fear of making things worse. That is why the very enterprising charity, Amina-MWRC, is inviting police and women [...]
Posted in community news, women's events | Tagged Amina-MWRC, Islamaphobia, leith open space, Lothian and Borders Police
By fay.young on June 16, 2009
If you can’t stand the heat: a rare chance to draw breath in the World Kitchen
It didn’t just rain, it absolutely poured. Recipes and posters got washed away as the deluge battered our poor gazebos. But cooks just kept on cooking which was just as well because as soon as the rain stopped people came [...]
Posted in africa centre, Food, Leith Open Space Events, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Gala Day, Leith Festival, leith open space, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on May 11, 2009
Calling all cooks. Here’s your invitation to take part in a unique community event during Leith Festival. World Kitchen in Leith is based on the simple idea that food is the best way to bring people together so we can celebrate the many different cultures that make Leith the most vibrant part of Scotland’s capital [...]
Posted in Food, Leith Open Space Events, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged FEAST, Gala Day, Leith Festival, leith open space, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on April 9, 2009
Thanks to Nick Gardner for the pictures
There’s nothing like a food market to bring life to a public space. The fortnightly farmers market transforms the view outside Ocean Terminal between 10 am and 4pm every second and fourth Friday of the month. And tomorrow is indeed the second Friday of April.
Posted in farmers market, Food | Tagged leith open space, ocean terminal farmers market, public space
By fay.young on March 25, 2009
Choosing topics for discussion at Who Cares for the Carers?
The day starts with some tough questions. Who should care? Does caring begin and end in the family? How much support should the state give? And what exactly is a carer anyway? Such questions do the rounds as women join the circle of discussion on a [...]
Posted in Leith Open Space Events | Tagged CEDAW, Engender, leith open space, pilmeny youth centre, Who Cares for the Carers? strategy review carers support
By fay.young on March 20, 2009
On Tuesday it was the first meeting of a new African women’s choir in Pilrig Church. Today (Friday) its the family event in the National Library of Scotland and there is much more to come – March is a very busy month for women of the Africa Centre.
Posted in africa centre | Tagged africa centre, equalities network, leith open space
