Soomaaliya is one of few cookbooks to examine Somali food and how conflict has reshaped it across the diaspora Soomaaliya is one of few cookbooks to examine Somali food and how conflict has reshaped it across the diaspora O n a video call from Brooklyn, between stops on her book tour, Ifrah F Ahmed is drinking ginger-root tea. The smell transports her to her childhood kitchen, where her mother often baked aromatic cardamom cake. “That’s a core childhood memory for me,” she said. For Ahmed, food