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		<title>Victor Castaño and Niye Acosta from Columbia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(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 the grace and humor that makes you feel you’ve been part of their family for years.  Within minutes the coffee begins to percolate and irresistible smells waft from the kitchen. Victor and Niye explain that the food they are preparing is called Bandeja Paísa - a ten-plus course meal typical of the Colombian region of Paísa, which includes the provinces of Antiochia, Risaralda, Caldas and Quindillo—Niye’s home province.  Victor says, “La Bandeja Paísa is considered the most typical dish from our country because it takes products from different regions of the country all mixed together.  It is like the union of the different regions, because it is plentiful and diverse.  For example, the meat it takes is unique to the area where I come from.  It is straight meat, nothing else.” &#8220;Here, we can go out and be at ease, we can see people walking in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Josephine Nizigiyimana Family from Burundi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GH: Here&#8217;s another excerpt from &#8220;Making West Home,&#8221; 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 another part of the world.  Their sparkling clean apartment is filled to capacity with family and neighbors; the girls are all wearing brightly colored saris, and in the background a Burundian video of people dancing and singing is playing while everyone sings and claps along with the TV. Upon arriving in Boise in August of 2007, a big part of making Boise home for Josephine and her parents was finding other people from Burundi who had been here longer to help them adapt.  Remarkably, they reconnected with Burundian friends in Boise they had met in a camp in the Congo.  It is easy to see that being so close to friends has made a difference as the families talk and laugh together.  Being with other Burundians helps, but one of the hardest things about moving to the United States was leaving people behind. &#8220;Some of them, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Zero People,&#8221; The Eh Soe Min Family from Burma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GH: As promised, here is a first excerpt from &#8220;Making West Home,&#8221; 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 noodles was a lot more difficult than just heating up a pan of water.  In Burma, the process took seven days to complete: “We grew the rice for our living.  We live in jungle, in the forest. We cut down the area of the forest and then we plant something when we need to grow.  Like rice and cucumber and pumpkin and corn and many kind of bean. And around October we collect the crop and that is our main work, you know?” Being Karen, an ethnic group in Burma and Thailand, Soe Min did not have a lot of opportunities beyond farming: “We just have only elementary school, or some village has the middle school.  We are many, many Karen people that do not have any education because we are so poor. The government would not like the ethnic group to develop in our lifestyle or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Making West Home&#8221; debuts at Historical Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/04/26/making-west-home-debuts-at-historical-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Idaho: Stories and Recipes of Boise&#8217;s Refugee Community, will debut Saturday, May 1 at the Idaho State Historical Museum from 1 to 4 p.m.  The event, featuring food sampling, stories and book signing, takes place in conjunction with the museum&#8217;s related exhibition, The Comforts of Home: Crafting a New Life in the Treasure Valley, scheduled to close on May 2, 2010. &#8220;Rarely do we know very much about how and why our new neighbors arrive here or taste the wide variety of food traditions they&#8217;ve brought with them.&#8221; Katie Painter, director of the Idaho Office for Refugees&#8217; Global Gardens and partner in the Making West Home project writes in the introduction to the new cookbook: &#8220;While many Boiseans are aware that we are a refugee resettlement community and welcome new neighbors of many ethnicities, rarely do we know very much about how and why our new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making West Home, A Preview</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/03/11/making-west-home-a-preview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;ve preserved cooking traditions in this new land, adapted to unfamiliar ingredients and, in turn, introduced new ingredients and recipes to this patch of the Northwest. I&#8217;ve been shooting the photographs; Sarah Barsness is doing the interviews. Together we&#8217;re documenting the cooking of Somali Bantu, Congolese, Bhutanese, Burundian, Turkish, Colombian, Afghani, Ethiopian and Bosnian families all living in the Treasure Valley area of Idaho. For Sarah and me, both native Idahoans, it&#8217;s been entry into a world of food and families more diverse and compelling than we&#8217;d ever imagined — and so close to our own doorsteps. As part of the project, a cookbook called Making West Home in Boise will be published in May.  Until then, here&#8217;s a slideshow of just one of our visits, to a Burundian family making a mid-day meal of rice and beans, fufu and goat stew.  The audio is of the kids talking and singing [...]]]></description>
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