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Ayen's Cooking School for African Men

Note: This DVD is PAL (Australia, UK, some Europe) and may not be compatible with NTSC systems (US, Canada, Japan).

Wonderful Australian documentary. By Director Sieh Mchawala & Producer Cathy Beitz of Vida Films, 52 mins. As seen on SBS TV.

What happens when a Sudanese Australian woman starts a cooking school for refugee men and asks them to prepare a feast for their biggest critics – the elders women? In Sudan it is taboo for a man to cook. As young Sudanese refugee, Alier puts it very plainly, “cooking, cleaning, washing the dishes, it’s the duty of your sister.”

The women of Sudan do not allow their men into the kitchen because, (amongst other reasons) they believe their penises might burn over the cooking fires. But when a group of refugee Sudanese men in Adelaide is found starving because they don’t know what to do with a fridge full of groceries, something has to change. Ayen Kuol, a Sudanese health worker decides to challenge a million years of custom and culture and start a cooking school for African men.

The generations battle it out for their right to be in the kitchen and Ayen eventually throws down the gauntlet. The boys should cook a feast for the elder women. Will the boys show up? Will the elder women come? Will there be anything worth eating?

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