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One woman is keeping her Sephardic heritage alive with every dish she cooks.

In the late 1920s, Rachel Almeleh's father, came to Seattle as part of a wave of Jewish immigrants whose roots stretch back centuries to what is now Spain and Portugal.

That community has grown in Seattle into what some estimate is the third largest Sephardic population in the country.

Almeleh connects with her culture through food, which led her to write a cookbook to help preserve her Mediterranean heritage.

My mother never taught me how to cook because she died and she was ill ever since I was born.

So I would go to my aunts' houses and learn how to cook.

And they didn't have written recipes.

My Aunt Glavina would say: Half a box of this.

A handful of that.

So I had to go I had to write things down.

And when I got married, my cousin Mary Healy gave me my first Sephardic cookbook.

So that's when the journey began to learn how to make everything Sephardic.

I kept collecting recipes and recipes and I decided I should put these all together in one place, so that my children can have them and have their food.

And so that it would also be a legacy for the community.

And I just love it when the people come up to me and say, I made this, and I made that from your book.

So it's been very joyful.

Next time, as we continue our stories on immigration to Washington, we'll look at trends in domestic immigration.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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