Mecca Bos
Meet Mecca Bos
For centuries, food and eating have helped connect lives and cultures. As part of the North Star Journey project, MPR News reached out to Twin Cities food writer Mecca Bos to share some stories about iconic cultural dishes and around how the rituals of making and eating food can pull people together.
Recent Contributions
- Bars as safe spaces for people of color in Minneapolis
- Minnesota THC beverage company co-founder sees Black ownership in the marijuana business as social justice issue
- Hastings natives create graphic novel from difficult hometown history
- 'This is good food': Reclaiming a classic Nigerian dish in Minnesota
- When fufu is a taste of love and a taste of home
- El amor en una mazorca: El ritual de los tamales convierte a los amigos en familia
- Dreamland: Then and now
- Foraged plants form a connection to the earth
- The East African twist on an American staple
- Hmong snack connects present with the past
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