Dishes from Refugees’ Home Countries at Emma’s Torch [newyorker.com]
"This way for life changing food,” a sandwich board parked outside Emma’s Torch announces, but it’s not your average sidewalk bait. The establishment—named for the poet Emma Lazarus, of Statue of Liberty fame (“Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”)—is not only a dine-in restaurant, with rosé on tap, but also a 501(c)(3) and a school of sorts, where refugees from all over the world receive culinary training (for which they are paid a salary) and help...