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At Caracas Arepa Bar in Rockaway, Maribel Araujo uses super-fine pre-cooked corn flour to make her Venezuelan-style arepas

Perfect Pockets

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The final letter from Edible Queens Publisher, Claudia Sanchez Mahedy

The Final Letter from the Publisher

To say that we have all had our challenges these last few months is an...

Enduring friendships forged over decades of volunteering as cooks at the Jain Center in Elmhurst

The Temple Aunties

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Mina Stone opened her café, Mina’s, on the ground-floor of MoMA PS1 in September 2019.

Mina's

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How a country’s racist history forced a family to a new home where tradition now reigns supreme

A Love Letter to Nonna’s Persian Food

For over 30 years, my Friday nights have been filled with Shabbat dinner...

Chef Decadence’s crab menu was inspired by the Jamaican fish fries she grew up with in East New York

In the Kitchen with Rockaway’s Queen Crab

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How four women across the borough spend their income on groceries on a given week

Queens Grocery Diaries

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The Girl with the Lemon Tattoo

There are well more than 800 lemons in Hannah Berger’s Ridgewood apartment...

For this Women’s issue, we sidled up to the bar to talk with four women who happen to be some of the borough’s most beloved longtime bartenders.

Behind the Bar with the Best in the Biz

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Warung Selasa means “Tuesday pop-up restaurant,” and is one of the smallest eateries in New York for authentic Indonesian home cooking.

Sambal, Spice and Everything Nice Tuesdays with Chef Tjahajadi

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Meet Amy Quichiz, organizer behind Veggie Mijas, the plant-based collective she founded in 2018 for women and nonbinary people of color

Amy Quichiz, Founder of Veggie Mijas

Amy Quichiz’s smile brightens the doorway of her family’s Jackson Heights...

Submit to Edible Queens is supporting the local community with a video project to support your local small business.

Supporting Queens' Food Community

Edible Queens and their friends, Joe DiStefano, Jonathan Forgash and...

Queens Struggles to Stay Open for Its Community Amidst COVID-19

In almost any other situation, the hell in which we currently reside could...

Local Dining and Resources in Queens guide produced by Edible Queens.

Local Dining and Resources in Queens

We support local restaurants, bakers, farms, brewers, and makers — and we...

Maharaja Sweets and Snacks is an Indian candy store in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.

The Sweet Spot for Vegetarian Indian Cuisine

Some of the best vegetarian Indian food in New York City is in the back of...

Meet Hando Youssouf, a world-traveling chef and consultant and experience his cooking at an upcoming event in Queens.

There’s No Space Like Hando’s

If you were to write a movie about Hando Youssouf, the first scene might...

Edible Queens Veggie Issue Spring 2020 Editor's Letter from Claudia Sanchez.

Winter 2019: The Veggie Issue, No. 19

Last night for dinner, I prepared for myself a roasted acorn squash,...

The masculinity around eating meat and prejudices of being a vegetarian that writer, Hernan Leguizamo, faced.

Man Enough to Not Eat Meat

I grew up in Bayside—that’s where my mother went when she immigrated from...

Soy Bean Chan Flower Shop in Flushing, Queens creates sweet and/or savory soybean pudding called douhua.

The Proof is in the Soybean Pudding

Sandwiched between a Chinese jewelry shop and a Vietnamese beauty parlor...

When P.S. 244 in Flushing, Queens switched to plant-based meals, other local schools followed suit.

Lessons Learned

In the interest of full disclosure, school Principal Robert Groff...

Founders Craig Thompson (left) and Steffen Alexander at A Live Kitchen in Laurelton, Queens, New York.

Live from Laurelton

If you aren’t sure what type of vegan restaurant A Live Kitchen is,...

Forest Hills Homecook, Alexa Weitzman, Creates Vegan German-Jewish Holiday Recipes.

Shabbat Shalom: No Meat Required

Cooking and eating can be a challenge when you’re the only vegan in a...

Vegan cookbook author and Queens native, Terry Hope Romero, talks about her new book Show Up for Salad.

Show Up for Salad

To Terry Hope Romero, “salad” doesn’t have to be a scary word that...

Smoothie being poured at The Nourish Spot in Jamaica, Queens, New York.

Smoothie Operators

Since the mid-20th century, Caribbeans in Queens have impacted the borough...

Smile of the Beyond, opened in 1972, is Queens's oldest diner focusing on vegetarian cuisine.

Smile of the Beyond

Walk up the hill from the Parsons Boulevard F train station and you’ll...

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