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This collections explores the immigration history, cultural traditions, identity, and contemporary experience of cultural groups throughout the state. Field research documented the experience of immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries…

African-American Vermonters cook soul food version of Thanksgiving.

Somali Bantu refugees share their cooking traditions, which reflect the history of their country with influences from Britain, Italy and India.

Immigrants to Vermont from Iran/Persia share tradition of No Ruz, spring celebration, with Sabzi Polow Bamahi (rice with fish) and other dishes.

Refugees in Vermont magazine Nov/Dec 2001: general background on diverse refugees who have come to Vermont since the 1970s with some details on Tibetan and Vietnamese foods specifically.

UVM students and other Vermonters of Indian heritage share food and other traditions of Diwali.

Asian New Year as celebrated by various Asian communities - Vietnamese, Chinese - in Vermont.

Trubek shares the story of her home orchard in Cornwall, which has some plum trees similar to the varieties familiar to Bosnian immigrants to Vermont.

While not technically refugees, Tibetans are effectively refugees and this family is among the 100 or so Tibetans who have come to Vermont since GWBush sr made a deal with the Dalai Lama to allow in a certain number. They make traditional momo…

Family from Cameroon shares food traditions from their native land.