…differentiated us by who our fathers were. Normally, we only got corns and potatoes for food, and the portions were far from making us full. In the rare occasions when…

…one of them brought for the day. Sometimes they go together to a nearby supermarket to buy food for dinner. They return with carts overflowing with fruits and vegetables. If…

…mother while she sold Bolivian food at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Her entire family lived in a one-bedroom apartment when they first arrived. She got involved in QNU because she saw…

…result of the unjust 30-year jail sentence of her son, Shahawar Matin Siraj, Shahina refuses to give up the fight. As a food caterer, she creates and delivers complex, nuanced flavor and…

…display of Balady Halal Foods. To one side, adjacent to a large carton of Mexican mangoes, leans an ornate framed metal work of Arabic calligraphy inscribed with “Allah” and “Mohammed”—the…

…and police accountability for Colorlines. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Guardian, on WNYC, and elsewhere. She blogs about food and cooking at snackhouseblog.com. Julianne will cover…

…sharing food during tenant organizing meetings, the panelists emphasized the rituals, memories, and practices to create calm in the everyday chaos and greater societal issues. “Self-care in all of these,…

…economy and society,” says Roshan, who like other TPS holders, is not eligible to receive public benefits like Social Security or food stamps. “Whether you win or lose in campaigns,…

…to buy our local food, speak our language, listen to our music playing out of cars and to stories, and most importantly, be with our people, instead became infested with…

…2018) as well as “The Monocle Travel Guide to Seoul” (food and drinks chapter co-editor/writer, March 2018). While she was in the world of breaking news, she worked full-time for…

…into their house. I shuffle over to the kitchen. My mother is up and she smiles, preparing the tea she and my still-asleep father will imbibe before abstaining from food…

…block. He argued that public holidays for Eid and the push for halal food in schools may be proof of this. While these changes are undeniable, Latif also mentioned that…

…event was a perfect example: For many of the children who came out that afternoon, this was their first time visiting Industry City, the sprawling food, retail and arts complex…

…their cultural heritages and memories? Their traditions and histories? Palestinian food, dance, and clothing are now subject to Israeli theft and appropriation as readily as Palestinian land. Israel claims hummus…

…a few words of their language, an understanding of a tradition, a food you have both tasted, you become familiar. In the back of taxicabs, at checkout counters, on park…

…do so. But, I’m reminded of the students in the ESL program, some of whom leave their war-torn nations and then struggle to find food and shelter in one of…

…more recently, a health food store overrun with Ayurveda-claiming yoga-practitioners. Its versatility has seen it barbecued into imitation pork; soon it will be incorporated into hackneyed ubiquity.  But as a…

…high-ceiling Soho apartment where kids drank egg-drop soup and cracked fortune cookies bought from Food Emporium. Rose was my best friend, and she and I would sit under the table…

…moons, powdered skulls, food cans, shrapnel wounds of rainbows, bankers, oil tankers. They never leave the city again. He came into my living room when I was watching TV. He…

…morbid curiosity. On the phone, I regale her with the usual. What the food was like. What fresh outrageous declaration he made. I keep the worst (or best) for the…