For our latest installment of our series on dinner parties, Kate McCaffrey and Melina Macall join us to discuss their Syria Supper Club. The club began in 2015 with a Jewish Christmas dinner of Chinese food for 10 recently arrived Syrian families, but has grown grown into a fundraiser and cultural exchange with 30 cooks. Women from the refugee families cook elaborate dinners, and Americans host the meals at their homes or community centers.
Due to tremendous demand and interest, McCaffrey and Macall have expanded their initiative into a brand new organization: The United Tastes of America. To attend an event or support their efforts, visit The United Tastes of America website.
This episode of "The Leonard Lopate Show" is guest hosted by Deb Perelman. Perelman is a self-taught home cook, photographer and creator of SmittenKitchen.com. Her first book, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two children, and is currently at work on her second cookbook, which is due out this fall.