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First Days: Top San Francisco Chef Hossain Zaré Khiabani on Having Thick Skin and Moving to America From Iran

September 17, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

The World is collecting stories about immigrants’ first days in the US. It’s a project inspired by the South Asian American Digital Archive. Here is a submission from Hossain Zaré Khiabani. He’s from Iran and moved to San Francisco in 1986.

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