“Today, I’m going to give you the food of Somalia,” Chef Samiro Elmi says to her practice cooking class. “Are you ready to eat?” Elmi is preparing for the 3-hour class she’ll be teaching in ...

Surprises were easier to come by before the internet. In most cases these days, by time I sit down to try a new restaurant, I've already researched its menu, read online reviews, and scoured photos of ...

A dish that brings people together. The post How A Shared Somali Plate Shaped My Sense of Home & Community first appeared on ...

Dining in Phoenix sometimes feels like going toe-to-toe with Torquemada during the Spanish Inquisition, or at least Monty Python in that skit where they declare, “No one expects the Spanish ...

To the untrained eye, Waamo and Al Aruba may seem like Ethiopian restaurants. Both offer Ethiopian cuisine’s trademark flatbread and lots of stewed meats and vegetables, but these two eateries ...

Minneapolis-based frozen sambusa brand Hoyo is named for the Somali word for "mother." Its founders started the business in part to provide jobs to Somali women. NINA MOINI: If you hadn't had lunch ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Minnesota is often associated with snow, lakes and Prince. Somalis and camel burgers? Not so much. Most people aren't aware that ...