Two Minnesota businesses have teamed up to create one of the Minnesota State Fair's newest food vendors, offering Middle Eastern and Somali-inspired meals. Minneapolis restaurants Oasis Mediterranean ...

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 ...

As you are probably aware, all things Minnesota (and Somali) have been in the news amid a giant fraud scandal involving Somali residents and government welfare programs. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor ...

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 ...

The smell of the plate reached me before the plate itself had the chance to. A wave of steam rose from cooked rice, carrying the warm scent of spices, sizzling beef, goat meat, or chicken, creating a ...

*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 ...