Flavors From Afar: Where refugees cook up new lives
On the menu recently at the Los Angeles restaurant Flavors From Afar: Maria Esther Galban’s favorite recipes, inspired by her native Venezuela.
“My heart felt very, very happy,” she says of working with the eatery where refugees and asylum-seekers like her get to keep a connection to their homelands and improve their lives in the United States – one plate at a time.
Ms. Galban never thought she’d be starting over at the age of 60. She had already found her paradise on earth – working in her art studio in Venezuela making pottery, jewelry, and natural soaps, and spending time with family and friends. Her large property by the Caribbean Sea held animals, a garden,
