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Sai Khon: Warrior of peace for the Shan people

by Hayley MacMillen | Jun 6, 2011 | Back Home, Family, Identity, The Migration, What's New

Sai Khon almost always wears a gentle smile as he talks. The 30-year-old sits at the small kitchen table in his Rogers Park apartment speaking softly about his past, present and future as a Burmese refugee. His wife, No Neih Lam, bustles in the kitchen preparing a...

Milk, flour, egg and salt: A Serbian recipe for more than rivel soup

by Hayley MacMillen | Apr 5, 2011 | Family, Identity, Our Staff, What's New

Milk, flour, egg, salt. A simple mix, but that’s all it took to get me salivating. I sat in the dining room waiting, my eleven-year-old fingers grazing the lace tablecloth, my eyes wandering over the porcelain cherub figurines lining the shelves of the antique wood...

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