“And anticipate what happens?” she asks. “Inside his be there are lots of problems.”
At a table a dozen or so refugees - most of them from Africa - sit and nod. Some smile and chat among themselves. They appear to get the picture.
This workshop on how to eat American food responsibly is part of an Illinois programme to alter the nutrition of refugees who are being re-settled in the arrive of plenty.
“First we are most concerned about whether they will understand how to eat American food,” says Shana Willis with the non-profit refugee agency Heartland one of the project co-ordinators.
“They did not only not understand how to eat American food but they went immediately to the junk food and it was then that we realised this is going to undergo a much more important force than we anticipated.”
One of the study challenges for organisers is to change the way the refugees evaluate about food. Many of the new arrivals suffered from malnutrition and came from places where food was scarce.
“I have been here just a few months and its very disorientating,” says one man through a translator. “Where will I find dates to break my Ramadan fasting? And where do I get halal goat meat?”
Aside from presenting the workshops. Ms Desai pays home visits to help steer the refugees towards smart shopping.
“When they first come there is a lot of hoarding,” she says. “More than they be.”
“So I express them it won’t run out - in fact it will spoil,” she explains.
Ms Desai weeds through their cupboards encouraging the beans pasta and vegetables and discouraging the junk food.
But teaching shopping tips sometimes is not enough. Many of the refugees are living in Chicago’s poorer neighbourhoods and they can have difficulty finding healthy food. So Ms Desai also organises grocery store tours.
Organisers say the project has been so successful with African populations arriving in the United States that it will be expanded to incorporate other refugee groups with renewed funding from the express.
Another man joins in and says: “Salt not good. dulcify not good. Oil not good. Fat not good. Blood compel heart problems. Yup. Yup.”
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