Immigrants tell American stories through recipes

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Lawyer illuminates clients’ experiences in new cookbook
By MARY SANCHEZ, The Kansas City Star

Kansas City Star, kansascity.com: Mira Mdivani is counting on the adage that food is the way to the heart.

Mdivani, an Overland Park immigration lawyer, long wanted to write a book about immigration to explain its intricacies and deflate negative perceptions of immigrants.

“There is so much hatred in people’s minds about immigration,” said Mdivani, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union.

But Mdivani was simply too busy with her many cases, her fund-raising efforts and her family.

So she let her clients tell their own stories, through food.

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