Kia Ora, November 2024
Story by Sharon Stephenson, Photos by Martin Haughey
If you’ve flown into JFK Airport, you’ve visited Queens, NYC’s largest borough, where hundreds of tongues are heard and ATMs offer numerous languages to conduct your transaction. “Peel back Queens’ food landscape and you’ll find successive waves of immigrants – from Ireland and Bhutan to Ecuador and Lebanon – who’ve brought their rich culinary heritage with them,” says Amanda Adler-Brennan, guide on a food walking tour of Jackson Heights, the Queens suburb with the largest foreign-born population (and an impressive array of food trucks).
