Eating Somali food? Don’t forget the banana, ... I stopped by Maashaa'allah Restaurant in Cedar-Riverside for my first-ever traditional Somali meal: an enormous $14 rice and lamb plate.

When the Somali Civil War broke out in 1991, my family and I became refugees. We spent the next several years in search of safety and home, first in neighboring East African countries before being ...

While on assignment in Minneapolis last month, I stopped by Maashaa’allah Restaurant in Cedar-Riverside for my first-ever traditional Somali meal: an enormous $14 rice and lamb plate.

Traditional foods include goat meat, rice, sambusas, and soor. Contemporary food includes burgers and chicken wings. The Somali kids love chicken nuggets. In between are foods that have the texture, ...

For the nine young authors of "Soo Fariista/ Come Sit Down: A Somali American Cookbook" (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 183 pages, $24.95), who are part of Wariyaa, Somali Youth in Museums ...

At first glance, Mohammed and Glover would seem to make an odd couple of business partners. She’s in her late 50s, a self-proclaimed bookworm with a ready laugh who came to the U.S. from Somali ...

Traditional Somali tea, which is fragrant milk tea If you like spicy, make sure you ask for the green sauce – or as online reviewers like to refer to as “the green stuff.” The restaurant may ...

Dive into Somali food in Stone Mountain. ... to learn more about traditional Somali dishes. ... in Somalia, that’s what they serve,” Bulhan said. “Every lunch, that’s what we ate ...