Gathering around the table is a powerful way to enrich lives and a local faith-based nonprofit is doing just that by hosting an event for the community to learn about Afghan resettlement, their ...

When couple Paul Iglesias and Sophia Akbar decided to open the contemporary Afghan restaurant Jaji, it took some time to get the menu just right. Besides satisfying their own palates and tastes after ...

DELTA TWP. — Khalid Mahmood was nine years old when his family moved from Kabul, Afghanistan, to mid-Michigan in 2001. He spent his middle school years learning to speak English and adjusting to a new ...

Afghanistan is framed as much by Hollywood and the media as it is by the war on the ground. The tropes are wearyingly familiar: newsroom visuals of gaunt men with rifles piled on moving trucks, movies ...

Sophia Akbar, the co-founder and co-owner of Oakland restaurants Parche and Jaji, was born and grew up in Walnut Creek. New Concord restaurant Mazza is offering an authentic taste of Afghanistan At ...

TURLOCK (CBS13) — Peek inside the kitchen of First and Main in Turlock on a Sunday in November and there are onions sweating in a pot; custard has just come off the stove and is being packaged; there ...

A trip to Afghan Village Cuisine is something like visiting an Afghan home, where the meal is how-mom-made-it authentic dishes, like Kabuli pulao, eggplant curry, naan bread and carrot balls for ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Word on the street is, it’s the first Afghanistan-style restaurant in Michigan — and it’s set to open right here in Lansing. “We’ve been traveling, believe it or not, to Canada ...