The holidays are upon us — a season of thanks, love, and spending time with family, but also of sharing food with loved ones. Learn how to make Thai fried rice — a common local dish in Thailand — and explore how food is a global language for all we share it with.
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Recipe from Mosul, Iraq: Making Dolma away from home
Innovative projects through the World Food Programme empower people like Saeeda — displaced from Mosul, Iraq, two years ago — to cook a favorite recipe from home.
Recipe for buuz — traditional Mongolian dumplings
On the plains of Mongolia, the cuisine is focused on meat and dairy, especially for nomadic herding families. See what it’s like to cook in this harsh climate, and try a recipe at home for buuz, traditional Mongolian steamed dumplings!
Cooking for better nutrition in Nicaragua
When it comes to children’s nutrition, food quality is more important than quantity. Malnutrition can still limit a child’s development and weaken the immune system. See how new recipes and cooking techniques are helping to keep children healthy in Nicaragua!
Dennis The Prescott: I believe in a HungerFree world
Today, October 16, is World Food Day. We’re celebrating food because we believe that everyone deserves food for today and for tomorrow. After visiting Kenya with us this summer, food blogger Dennis The Prescott shares what this means to him.
Smartphones and gas stoves in rural Rwanda
When you think of rural farming communities in Africa, do you picture technologies like smartphones and kitchens with gas stoves? Find out how innovative technologies are changing the way people farm and cook in Rwanda!
Banana pancakes and prayer
Josephine in Uganda makes 650 banana pancakes every Sunday and sells them at church for a penny each. She raises her 13 children and grandchildren on that income: $6.50 a week. See what it’s like to make this recipe, and how love and prayer keep her going.
His sister’s keeper: Protecting kids from child sacrifice
Yesterday, 6-year-old Trevor’s body was found in Uganda. He had been sacrificed by a witch doctor. Our staff writer Kari is there in Uganda right now. Pray with us for Trevor’s mother, and see how our Amber Alert program is working to bring children home when they’re abducted.
Lured into marriage: A survivor’s story of being trafficked
Pyone is a survivor of human trafficking. After four years trapped in another country, today she is reunited with her family, working to support her daughter, and this past spring told her story so other young women might avoid her horrible experience. Read her story.
Teaching children empathy as a way to see and address poverty
How can we redefine “selfishness” with our kids so it includes the thriving of all humans, not only ourselves? Blogger Joy Bennett describes three ways to help our children grow stronger in empathy.