Introduction / Sun Yung Shin -- Grandma's portal / Ifrah Mansour -- Living with the dead / May Lee-Yang -- Haitian kitchen / Valérie Déus -- An unfortunate mosiac / Michael Torres -- Buy ten get one free! An open letter to Bánh Mí wannabes / Ánh-Hoa Th Nguy¿n -- The measurements / V. V. Ganeshananthan -- "These are the plates of our lives" / Senah Yeboah-Sampong -- Fragments of food memories; or, love letter to my dad / Lina Jamoul -- Mov ntse dlej / Kou B. Thao -- Beans or bullets: a feminist reading of baleadas / Roy G. Guzmán -- The summer of lao beef jerky at Rivoli / Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay -- Taking langar: ancestral blueprints for mutual aid and abolition / Simi Kang -- Home is where the haleem is / Zarlasht Niaz -- Lake Superior looks like the ocean to island girls from Minnesota / Junauda Petrus-Nasah.
Summary:
"Food can be a unifier and a healer, bringing people together across generations and cultures. Sharing a meal often leads to sharing stories and deepening our understanding of each other and our respective histories and practices, global and local. Newcomers to Minnesota bring their own culinary traditions and may re-create food memories at home, introduce new friends and neighbors to their favorite dishes, and explore comforting flavors and experiences of hospitality at local restaurants, community gatherings, and spiritual ceremonies. They adapt to different growing seasons and regional selections available at corner stores and farmers markets. And generations may communicate through the language of food in addition to a mix of spoken languages old and new. All of these experiences yield stories worth sharing around Minnesota cook fires, circles, and tables. In What We Hunger For, fourteen writers from refugee and immigrant families write about their complicated, poignant, funny, difficult, joyful, and ongoing relationships to food, cooking, and eating" -- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.