(GH: Here’s a final excerpt from “Making West Home,” a cookbook on the lives and foodways of refugees in southern Idaho. The book will debut this Saturday at the Idaho State Historical Society. Sarah Barsness wrote the text, I took the photos.) Victor Castaño and Niye Acosta welcome you into their comfortable home with...
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(GH: Here’s another excerpt from “Making West Home,” a cookbook on the lives and foodways of refugees in southern Idaho. The book will debut this Saturday at the Idaho State Historical Society. Sarah Barsness wrote the text, I took the photos.) Entering the home of Josephine Nizigiyimana and her family feels like stepping into...
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(GH: As promised, here is a first excerpt from “Making West Home,” a cookbook on the lives and foodways of refugees in southern Idaho. The book will debut this Saturday at the Idaho State Historical Society. Sarah Barsness wrote the text, I took the photos.) Eh Soe Min remembers a time when making rice...
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Over the past several months, the Western Folklife Center has enlisted yours truly and ethnographer Sarah Barsness to document the stories and food ways of Somali Bantu, Congolese, Bhutanese, Burundian, Meskhetian Turk, Colombian, Ethiopian, Burmese and Bosnian families all living in the Treasure Valley. The result, a newly published cookbook, Making West Home in...
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I’ve been working for several months on a documentary book project for the Western Folklife Center called Making West Home. The goal of the project has been to interview and photograph refugee families in their gardens and kitchens, learning the significance of food and cooking in their lives, how they’ve preserved cooking traditions in...
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