Category: Food In 2 Worlds

Food In 2 Worlds

Food in 2 Worlds: Immigrants Celebrate Thanksgiving by Mixing Traditions & Inventing New Ones

In many immigrant households the Thanksgiving meal is a mix of traditions from the old country eaten alongside the food from the new.

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Indian Sikh Community Provides Hot Vegetarian Food for Victims of Hurricane Sandy

Since Hurricane Sandy, the group United Sikhs has brought hot food to areas like Hoboken, Newark, Manhattan and Queens.

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Immigrant Stories from Feet in 2 Worlds on Public Radio Today

You can hear four different Fi2W stories across the country today on public radio. We link to them inside.

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Feed Me a Story: Collecting America’s Culinary Heritage

Two women, inspired by their immigrant roots, undertake a project to document people’s family recipes using unorthodox methods.

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Sharing a Traditional Sikh Meal on Staten Island

The traditional langar meal is served after every Sikh religious services and is provided free to anyone regardless of religion, caste or race. Arpita Aneja takes us to a gurudwara on Staten Island.

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Nepali and Tibetan Immigrants Thrive in the Union Square Greenmarket

About five percent of the salespeople at the Union Square Greenmarket are Nepali or Tibetan, and the number is rising because of a tight knit community network.

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Muslim Street Food Vendors Keep Cooking Despite Ramadan Fast

Many of the Muslim vendors of New York’s ubiquitous food carts spent the last month fasting for Ramadan, even while serving others.

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Food in 2 Worlds™ Podcast: First Comes Filipino Immigration then a Jollibee Restaurant

Jollibee restaurants have taken American food that was imposed on Filipinos during the colonial period and made it something that Filipino immigrants can be proud of.

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Rotis, Doubles and Lo Mein: Sampling the Mixed-up Trinidadian Food of Crown Heights

Journalist Aaron Leaf explores some of the hottest Caribbean flavors along Brooklyn’s Nostrand Avenue for Food in 2 Worlds ™.

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Food in 2 Worlds ™: Immigrant Stories from the Union Square Greenmarket

The market is the center of New York City’s local food scene and immigrants play a vital role in making the market work.