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The mackerel pasta bake my grandmother made when she was a refugee

Anshel Cohen, 24, half-Jewish and half-German, tells the story of how a family favourite meal was born during the aftermath of World War II in Europe In 1948 Alfed, a small town in Lower Saxony, my Oma’s (Grandmother) family were finally reunited in a refugee camp. She was thirteen, and the first meal they shared […]