Sisters’ Cuisine

A multicultural food project run by refugee and asylum-seeking women from Trampoline House

Sisters’ Cuisine is the Trampoline House’s catering service. We provide catering for events both in and outside the Trampoline House. All chefs at Sisters’ Cuisine receive practical training in dietetics and nutritional advice. Sisters’ Cuisine also provides catering for the Trampoline House’s Senior Club.

We prepare healthy and delicious food from all over the world, inspired by our various countries of origin, such as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iran, Morocco and Palestine

Recipes Without Borders: Publishing cookbooks

In 2017, Sisters Cuisine published its first cookbook filled with delicious recipes from around the world. However, it was not only a cookbook: the book also portrayed the cooks behind the recipes – women who have experienced the challenging situation of being an asylum seeker or refugee in Denmark.

In the interviews accompanying the recipes, the women relate their relationship to cooking to the rest of their lives as women, as asylum seekers, or as refugees. Food is not just food. It can be the dry bread that is all you have to eat during your flight, and it can be the good food your mother made back home. Cooking can also be the cheese sandwiches you eat in your room in the asylum center because the center’s community kitchen full of men makes you feel uncomfortable.

But cooking can also be a way to create new communities that transcend backgrounds, history, and cultures. And it can be a way to relieve
homesickness and build bridges between the past
and the present.

Sisters Cuisine is working on a new cookbook that we hope to launch in 2020.