Various Hmong dishes sitting on a table. - Mark Wiens/YouTube Minnesota has tasty traditional dishes like its famed juicy Lucy burger, the lesser-known Minnesota-style pizza, and its surprisingly ...

Yia Vang and Diane Moua have created a moment in the Twin Cities for the emergence of a cuisine virtually unknown outside its own immigrant community. A spread of Hmong food at Vinai, which, along ...

For chef Yia Vang, live-fire cooking isn’t a trend. “This is actually a part of who I am,” he says. “This is how our people cooked hundreds of years ago. This is how our people cook today. If you go ...

The chefs at Diane’s Place and Vinai serve as guardians and interpreters of their foodways. Credit...Video by Ben Brewer For The New York Times Supported by By Tejal Rao Reporting from Minneapolis, ...