Star of Ishtar features food from Assyrian culture, which has a history that stretches back thousands of years in the Middle ...

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Aunt Ruth was in the middle of one of her stories, and she started searching for a prop. It was summer in Chicago, and she was telling us about a friend, or maybe it was a relative, who had fallen and ...

Aunt Ruth was in the middle of one of her stories, and she started searching for a prop. It was summer in Chicago, and she was telling us about a friend, or maybe it was a relative, who had fallen and ...

Atorina Zomaya was raised in a close-knit Assyrian American family in Rogers Park that revolved around food. “Pretty much everything was homemade—breads, yogurt, cheeses—according to ancient family ...

Atorina Zomaya. (Assyrian Kitchen) Atorina Zomaya, the spirited founder of Assyrian Kitchen, is making ancient foods a modern phenomenon. As part of the Chicago-based interactive cooking project, ...

Terrific news for us chiliheads. Once again, the South Bay’s finest will be sharing their best firehouse chili — for a good cause — now that the San Jose Firefighters Burn Foundation has resurrected ...

Cookbooks, like memoirs and nonfiction novels, provide vital insight on how humans do what they do best—live their lives. The passing down of recipes, whether written or unwritten, is as old as time.

Daniel Sarkiss and Atorina Zomaya are the co-owners of Assyrian Kitchen in Jefferson Park. (Brian Rich/Sun-Times) Growing up in Rogers Park, Atorina Zomaya was immersed in her Assyrian culture, ...

Cookbooks, like memoirs and nonfiction novels, provide vital insight on how humans do what they do best—live their lives. The passing down of recipes, whether written or unwritten, is as old as time.