The Bottom Line
- Great guide to ethnic dining in Queens, New York
- Background on the cuisines of over 20 cultures
- Recipes and glossaries explain unfamiliar food
- Perfect gift for a "foodie" interested in exploring ethnic eats anywhere
- Not enough restaurant reviews
- Plenty of restaurants are listed, but are all they recommended?
Description
- Full Title: Eating Like Queens: A Guide to Ethnic Dining in America's Melting Pot, Queens, New York
- Author: Suzanne Parker
- Published: 2005 by Jones Books
- ISBN: 0976353911
- Not really a guide to restaurants but a guide to getting the best meals in ethnic restaurants.
- Makes a great gift for friends and family who love to explore new cuisines.
- Compare Prices for Eating Like Queens.
Guide Review - Eating Like Queens - Book Review
Author Suzanne Parker, a food reporter and award-winning cook, has focused her search on Queens, the most ethnically diverse area in the most ethnically diverse city in the world. Over a hundred languages are spoken in Queens, and more important, the same tongues can taste an amazing array of dishes. Parker gives the background on this phenomenon and how you can enjoy it most through history, recipes, and a bit of gastronomic anthropology. Her enthusiasm and knowledge could light a fire even under a finicky eater and get you out there trying new foods and cooking them at home.
There are chapters on the cuisines -- and Queens highlights -- of Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, China (Sichuan, Cantonese, Beijing, Taiwanese, Shanghai, and more), Colombia, Egypt, El Salvador, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. It concludes with a smattering of Queens restaurants and markets for relatively more well-known cuisines like Italian, Japanese, and Greek.
Eating Like Queens would make a tremendous gift for a "foodie" or anyone obsessed by Chowhound.com. Get one for yourself too -- your stomach will thank your brain for reading this book.
