Tag: San Diego

  • Cooking Class Bridges Divide for Refugee Moms and Their American Daughters

    Twice a month, refugee women and their children congregate at the City Heights Wellness Center for a cooking class. It started as a way for the moms to share traditional recipes with their teenage daughters, but the American-raised girls wanted to throw U.S. favorites like pizza and stir-fry into the mix. | Video Credit: Katie…

  • Navigating Food Traditions as a Somali Refugee Family

    By Ruxandra Guidi Mana Ahmed Mohamed arrived in San Diego from Somalia with her husband and oldest son in 1997. They have since had a boy and two girls here. One of the things she found most challenging, she said, was finding the kinds of foods that were acceptable by her faith, Islam. “When I…

  • Mid-City Waits Decades for Bus to Come

    City Heights resident Maria Cortez spoke of her nearly three-decade wait for a bus line to be built along Interstate 15. Transit advocates and a handful of residents met at the site of the long-delayed project to ask that SANDAG prioritize transit investments over highway expansions. | Photo Credit: Randy Van Vleck By Adrian Florido…

  • National Spotlight on City Heights Farm

    By Adrian Florido City Heights is becoming a model for how land in dense urban neighborhoods can be put to productive use. Corn stalks, melon vines and nopal cactus flourish there. With the help of local advocates, some of that produce is beginning to trickle into local restaurants, helping refugees tap into the growing farm-to-table…

  • Backyard Goats Get the Hoof, But Chickens Still Clucking

    By Adrian Florido Pity the goat with hopes of feasting on a tidy backyard lawn. City planners have given them the hoof, for now.  After county health officials said they were concerned about the safety of consuming unpasteurized or improperly pasteurized milk from goats, planners said they needed to do more research before recommending changing city rules…