Category Archives: Flushing
4 Neighborhood Butchers, 4 Neighborhood Recipes
When anyone asks me what’s so great about food in Queens, here’s what I tell them: that people here know how to cook and, as a result, they know what great food tastes like. Now, I’m not talking about hipsters … Continue reading
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Three Points Make a Triangle
The opening of the Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle, brought crowds of art lovers out Saturday evening to celebrate on one of the coldest nights of the winter. This is the fifth year the Queens Museum has … Continue reading
The Real Deal – a Bakewell Pudding from Bakewell, Derbyshire
In August of this year I wrote a piece investigating the culinary habits of the early Quakers of Flushing and learned much about the prominent Bowne Family who were the agricultural, civic and spiritual leaders of this area during the … Continue reading
Delicious pork belly – and a dash of fun – at Flushing’s renowned Han Joo
When I was growing up, on special occasions my family used to go to Benihana (stay with me), a franchised Japanese steakhouse that had – and probably still does – a sort of Disneyland vibe. You were seated around a … Continue reading
Feeding the “Sweet Tooth” of Flushing’s Early Quakers
Long Island, 1645: a group of English families is granted a charter by the Dutch of New Amsterdam to establish a village called Vlissengen, or what is now known as Flushing, in the Borough of Queens. Many of these folks … Continue reading
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