(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: 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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