My name is Jasmine Ramirez, I have lived in Nevada all my life born in Carson City, Nevada and raised in Yerington, Nevada where there is not much diversity what’s so ever. Going to high school in Yerington was pretty lame if I’d say so myself and it was a really small town. My graduating class really consisted of about eighty people, tops. And at first, I didn’t know who to interview because just about everyone I know is from either Reno or Las Vegas and didn’t think I was going to be able to find someone in time but luckily the person I needed was right in front of my eyes the whole time. Her name is Sara Sears, she has been a friend of mine for a couple of years now and before you start thinking or saying how could she be your friend if you didn’t even know where she was from? Well for starters she’s my sisters’ friends who they happen to be seven years older than me. So, I know her because of my sister and she has helped me a lot getting settled here in Reno while my sister had left to go live in Arizona. So, we’ve gotten a lot closer this year. I had decided to interview her and she was actually born and raised in Sulphur, Louisiana which is crazy because that’s the same place where Donald Link grew up in as well. Though Sara only lived there till she was five then moved to the Bay area with her father but she still thinks back to the times she lived there and how it is now when she goes back to visit her mother in Sulphur.

The first question I had decided to ask her was what was the first think that comes to her mind when she thinks of her city back home and immediately, she said the smell which I thought was funny but she said it was true because the entire town smells like sulfur. But she also said how the food is generally cooked outside and visit having the whole family there. The second question I asked was what her favorite dish was and she responded with gumbo and I asked her reasoning behind that and she said because when she had moved away from Louisiana to the Bay area she was a very picky eater and had a hard time getting used to her new home and overall just how things were. So her mom went out of her to get a recipe on gumbo did a little tweaking to it to make it her own and that became Sara’s favorite dish and it really made her more at home, which was able to comfort having to be so far away from her mom and siblings which took a toll on her growing up and being able to have a dish that ties in with so many memories and reminded her of family was good. She believes that this has really shaped her a little bit as a person. The third question I asked was how living in Louisiana affected her to today? And she had said not much besides that she was more exposed to a variety of foods that they had down there compared to here in Reno, Nevada. She also said that she tries to visit as often as she cans because of her family and all the memories’ that it holds.