Alireza Fakhrashrafi

Extended Family Dept: When I was 10 or 11, I started learning from my mother, he says, and doing the dishes!, according to The Star. Everyone was very emotional, he says. But they felt I would have a better future. Things were not stable for a young man of 23 and when Alireza Fakhrashrafi was growing up in Tehran, his extended family gathered every Friday Iran s day of rest for a huge multi-course feast. When it was his mother s turn to host, the budding chef helped out in the kitchen. In 1988, after a long war with Iraq, Fakhrashrafi made the difficult decision to leave his family and come to Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.