Current:Home > MarketsWomen's rights activist built a cookware empire that pays tribute to her culture-LoTradeCoin
Women's rights activist built a cookware empire that pays tribute to her culture
View Date:2024-12-23 21:27:25
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Shiza Shahid said her mother never taught her to cook.
"She wanted to make sure that my sister and I were free to pursue our dreams in a way that she had never been," Shahid told CBS News.
Shahid said she met Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai when Yousafzai was 11 years old, about six years before Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating for women's rights.
In 2013, Shahid said she left her job and helped Yousafzai co-found the nonprofit Malala Fund.
"I was 22 years old," Shahid said. "But in that moment, I knew that it was now or never."
Later, Shahid co-founded the cookware brand Our Place.
"In Pakistan, so much of our life and our culture revolves around cooking in the home and breaking bread together," Shahid said. "We literally found 'Our Place' in America by cooking and sharing food."
Shahid said the Our Place team is made up "predominantly" of "women and immigrants."
"We wanted to build a brand that celebrated Eid and Ramadan and Nowruz as loudly as we celebrated Christmas and Easter and New Year's," Shahid said.
Shahid said her mother has taken great pride in watching her create a business that celebrates her heritage and culture.
"For her to see her daughter building a business where the kitchen and the home was a pathway to liberation was really special," Shahid said.
- In:
- Pakistan
veryGood! (14893)
Related
- Love Is Blind’s Chelsea Blackwell Reacts to Megan Fox’s Baby News
- 'Running While Black' tells a new story about who belongs in the sport
- Bone-appétit: Some NYC dining establishments cater to both dogs and their owners
- A stranger noticed Jackie Briggs' birthmark. It saved her life
- Walmart Planned to Remove Oven Before 19-Year-Old Employee's Death
- Far From Turning a Corner, Global CO2 Emissions Still Accelerating
- Montana voters reject so-called 'Born Alive' ballot measure
- Georgia's highest court reinstates ban on abortions after 6 weeks
- Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid Enjoy a Broadway Date Night and All that Jazz
- Houston is under a boil water notice after the power went out at a purification plant
Ranking
- Elon Musk says 'SNL' is 'so mad' Trump won as he slams Dana Carvey's impression
- Justice Department unseals Donald Trump indictment — and reveals the charges against him
- Obama’s Climate Leaders Launch New Harvard Center on Health and Climate
- Doctors who want to defy abortion laws say it's too risky
- Sister Wives' Janelle Brown Details to Meri Why She Can't Trust Ex Kody and His Sole Wife Robyn
- Yes, Color Correction for Your Teeth Is a Thing: Check Out This Product With 6,700+ 5-Star Reviews
- Hurricane Lane Brings Hawaii a Warning About Future Storm Risk
- In California, Study Finds Drilling and Fracking into Freshwater Formations
Recommendation
-
Suicides in the US military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend
-
Beijing adds new COVID quarantine centers, sparking panic buying
-
WHO renames monkeypox as mpox, citing racist stigma
-
Texas Officials Have Photos of Flood-Related Oil Spills, but No Record of Any Response
-
Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families
-
Chile Cancels Plan to Host UN Climate Summit Amid Civil Unrest at Home
-
Tom Holland Reveals He’s Over One Year Sober
-
Doctors who want to defy abortion laws say it's too risky