Not Really Strangers
Not Really Strangers
USA for UNHCR
How Emma’s Torch is Building Community, One Kitchen at a Time
41 minutes Posted Jun 4, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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Recorded on location at Emma's Torch — a restaurant and culinary training center for refugees in Brooklyn, NY with locations in the Washington, DC metropolitan area — Suzanne sits down with staff members Kira O'Brien and Alexander Harris and alumnus Giorgi Tabukashvili to explore what home, belonging, and hospitality mean when displacement is part of the story. Now in its tenth year, Emma's Torch runs an 11-week, fully paid culinary training program for refugees, asylees, and other newcomers....