Interview with Samantha Fore, March 4, 2018
Project: Savor: Immigrant Entrepreneur Oral History Project
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Fore talks about being born in Lexington, Kentucky to immigrant parents from Sri Lanka, growing up speaking English as her first language, the care packages she received in college, and learning to cook Sri Lankan foods. She also discusses trips to her parents' homeland of Sri Lanka, cooking at parties in Boston, Massachusetts, and moving back to Lexington and opening a food tent. She talks about introducing new flavors blended with flavors of the South familiar to locals.Interview Accession
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Fore, Samantha Interview by Vanessa Grossl. 04 Mar. 2018. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Fore, S. (2018, March 04). Interview by V. Grossl. Savor: Immigrant Entrepreneur Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Fore, Samantha, interview by Vanessa Grossl. March 04, 2018, Savor: Immigrant Entrepreneur Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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