Union Kitchen's Yia Vang Creates a Home For Hmong Cuisine in the Midwest

Like many immigrants, Yia Vang’s cooking comes with a story, specifically one about a night around a fire on a ranch in the middle of Dripping Springs, Texas. “It was Laotian, Thai and Hmong chefs cooking over a big open fire, laughing and getting super excited about each other, when it dawned on me,” says Vang, the founder/head chef of Union Kitchen, a Twin Cities-based...