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“The cookbook will feature an array of dishes, from savory stews to coconut porridges to accidentally vegan breads. But of all of their rich culinary traditions, hudutu is perhaps the best to showcase the many miles the Garifuna have traveled, the ways in which they’ve endured and managed to hold fast to pieces of themselves wherever they went. The many-layered soup is reminiscent of the days they spent in the Caribbean islands, fishing and learning to do astonishing things with the coconut. The mashed plantains are a nod to the fufu of West Africa, the home of their ancestors.

Seen in that light, every batch of hudutu conjured up and shared in a Queens apartment feels like a minor miracle.”

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