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Basque Fact of the Week, Diaspora, Food

Basque Fact of the Week: Mayie Maitia and the Wool Growers Restaurant

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One of the distinguishing features of Basque culture in the US West are the Basque restaurants. Often serving family-style meals, with long tables and large plates and bowls of food, they are the cornerstone of Basque-American identity. The Wool Growers, in Bakersfield, California, is one of these wonderful dining spots, a place for Basques and […]

Basque Fact of the Week, Diaspora

Basque Fact of the Week: The Basques of Bakersfield, California

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The western United States saw Basque communities, often centered around the sheep herding trade, pop up across the landscape. Newly arrived Basques needed places to stay and contacts to help guide them as they tried to navigate this foreign land and the Basque boarding houses were born. Some of those endured over a century, their […]