The World Eats Here is an interesting look at the Queens Night Market and its many vendors. The recipes that are included encompass a variety of cultures and the images reflect the spirit of coming together to enjoy both food and community. Definitely a book that gives a bit of wanderlust and a look back to a time where we once gathered to enjoy a bite to eat.
Title: The World Eats Here: Amazing Food and the Inspiring People Who Make It at New York's Queens Night MarketAuthor: John Wang, Storm Garner
Publisher: The Experiment
Genres: Cookbook, Lifestyle
Publication Date: April 28, 2020
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Savor 75 recipes—and remarkable stories—from the immigrant vendor-chefs of NYC’s first and favorite night market
On summer Saturday nights in Queens, New York, scents from Moldova to Mexico whet families’ appetites as they feast on food from over 90 countries. Welcome to the Queens Night Market. It’s had well over a million visitors since 2015, and there’s little wonder why: The food is delicious, the energy infectious—and the $6 price cap, irresistible.
Many of the participating vendors are first- and second-generation immigrants living in Queens—the most diverse urban area on Earth! In The World Eats Here, they share their prized recipes and tales of home. You’ll meet Wanda Chiu of Hong Kong Street Food whose pan-fried noodles remind her of cold winter mornings before school. And Liia Minnebaeva will blow you away with her Bashkir farm cheese donuts—a treat from her childhood in Oktyabrsky in western Russia.
Affordable, easy, and dizzyingly diverse—get ready to enjoy flavors from all over the world in one place. Whether it’s Filipino dinuguan or Haitian diri ak djon djon, each recipe connects the reader with a small piece of an immigrant story—which is to say, the American story. Though each is entirely unique, they all demonstrate the importance of one thing: Food brings people together, and nowhere else could that be more true than at the Queens Night Market.
❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃
Review: The World Eats Here by John Wang & Storm Garner
It has been quite some time since I have visited New York and one day I would love to go back just to visit the Queens Night Market. This book gives a backgrounder and some really wonderful stories about the people and the food that make up this incredible market experience that is affordable and friendly. The recipes are reflective of many different continents and are quite unique, although some may not be easy to recreate without special equipment and hard to find ingredients.
❀ Fantastic Layout
The layout of the book makes for a great read for anyone wanting to learn more about different cultures and their foods, or just by type of recipe. The contents of the book are:
- Introduction
- The Americas and the Caribbean
- Europe
- Africa and the Middle East
- Asia
❀ Incredible and Awe-Inspiring
The World Eats Here will provide a small taste of outdoor festivals and eating out if you are missing that right now. The history and the people that are described within the pages of The World Eats Here are both incredible and awe-inspiring. As well, the recipes that are included can help to bring some of the Queens Night Market home while we wait for things to open up once more.
About John Wang
John Wang was born and raised in Texas, but his love affair with night markets started during the childhood summers he spent visiting Taiwan. A graduate of Yale’s law and business school (and triple-major from the University of Michigan), John quit his high-paying M&A attorney job at a premier law firm after paying off his student loans and in 2015 pursued his dream of creating what came to be the Queens Night Market. Now in its 5th year, the popular event averages over 12,000 visitors every summer Saturday—and has welcomed over 1 million visitors since its inception. Along with his wife Storm Garner, he is co-author of the market’s cookbook The World Eats Here.
About Storm Garner
DC-born, Paris-raised, and based in New York City since working on her first La Mama, ETC theater production in 2006, Storm Garner is a multi-disciplined artist—writer, filmmaker, designer, actor, musician—with a BA in Nonfiction Creative Writing from Columbia University and current student in Columbia’s Oral History Master’s Program. She created the video for the Queens Night Market’s first Kickstarter campaign and the stories included in this book are derived from her long-form interviews with participating vendors for her thesis The Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project, which will be publicly archived at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History.
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This sounds like a fascinating book. I am getting hungry thinking about it 🙂
Haha! I know what you mean! 😉
I’m getting hungry too. LOL I love trying foods from different cultures.
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Same! I would love to visit this market one day!
This just looks so… yummy.
I completely agree! 😉
That’s it, I’m buying this book and then eating as much as I can.
Ha! Enjoy!!
Very cool! I’ve never heard of this market, but it seems like it would be a great place to visit!
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Definitely on my bucket list!
This book sounds exciting! And it’s good to see Asian recipes being out there more often!
Yes! I am excited by the number of cultures represented in this one. 🙂
This sounds like an excellent read. And the pictures on the cover are making me hungry!
They seem to have that effect! 😉
Looking good and tasty love to try this
This sounds fascinating! You find the really good ones. I love cookbook type books that intertwine stories. Makes it so much more fun to try the recipes, or just lick your chops!
Mouth is watering now! Adding to my bucket list for NYC!
I love food! This book sounds great!
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This book sounds like a fantastic read. I love finding out what others are eating around different areas.
@tisonlyme143
Sounds very interesting, thanks for sharing 🙂
Great idea! I love Food Fests.
thanks for your review. wow over 90 countries sharing their food here. I would love to go and experience this.