Jackson Heights Food Tour at Eat Your World: Five Stops, 165 Languages and the Best Argument for Eating Your Way Through Queens
The Jackson Heights Food Tour, run by Eat Your World and organised by Laura Siciliano-Rosen, is a reminder that some of the best ways to understand a city are also the most delicious. Jackson Heights is regularly described as one of the most linguistically diverse neighbourhoods anywhere, and a walk through it, fork in hand, makes that statistic feel less like a fact and more like a lived experience. Our guide was Sonya, a Jackson Heights resident of many years who is a painter and mixed-media artist, a cookbook author and a licensed New York City tour guide of about fourteen years. She works alongside Laura, who lives on the same street and covers the tours Laura can’t lead herself. Over five stops, the afternoon moves between South Asia, the Himalayas and the Andes without ever leaving a few walkable blocks of Queens. It is generous, well-paced and thoroughly informative, and you will not need dinner afterwards.