Each time I cross a border, I feel the push and pull in my body, a cacophony of competing desires. And always there are choices to make: what to assimilate, what to reject. Is it true that we are always, as migrants, and the children of migrants, attempting to choose what my parents call "the best of both worlds"? Or is it possible to tra

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We don’t really think of food as political. It feels wrong to talk about something so enmeshed with home, comfort and nostalgia as belonging in the realm of politics. We’re used to relegating food to the domestic sphere: the kitchen and the place of women, a warm, familiar space far from the steeliness of legislation, government and war. So much of

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