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Number 64 on the 2025 list
Beejhy Barhany is a chef from Ethiopia, named to the AFN 100 in 2025 for publishing Gursha, named among 2025's best cookbooks by Book Riot.
In April 2025 Knopf published "Gursha" by Ethiopian-born chef Beejhy Barhany, with more than 100 recipes from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem and beyond. In December Book Riot named it among 2025's best cookbooks. Barhany spent part of her childhood in Tigray, lived in Sudan and Israel, and opened Tsion Cafe in Harlem in 2014. Gursha is an Amharic word for feeding another person a mouthful as a sign of affection.