How Manal Kahi is Championing Refugee Chefs in New York

It all started with some bad hummus.

Nikki Vargas
Unearth Women
Published in
5 min readMay 27, 2019

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Manal Kahi at the Eat Offbeat Offices in Long Island City, NY | © Phil Provencio

When Manal Kahi arrived in New York City as a Lebanese immigrant, she was less than impressed by the subpar quality of local hummus. In a city where packaged, mass-produced hummus is in pretty much every grocery store, Kahi struggled to find anything that could compare to what she was used to back home. So…

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Nikki Vargas
Unearth Women

Founding Editor, Unearth Women. Previous Editor at The Infatuation, Atlas Obscura & Culture Trip. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter: unearthwomen.substack.com