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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, ...

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 ...