Nancy Rosenbaum

Chef Yia Vang

How Chef Yia Vang is putting his own twist on Hmong cuisine

Culture

Yia Vang, who moved to the US from a Thai refugee camp as a kid, explains his family’s rites of passage, and why beets can be controversial.

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