Miscellany
Made Here: Recipes and Reflections From NYC's Asian Communities
Chapter by Robin Zhang, postdoc in mathematics, and Diana Le
Send Chinatown Love · 2023
In their chapter, "Flushing: The Melting Pot's Melting Pot," the authors explore how Flushing, New York - whose Chinatown is the largest and fastest growing in the world - earned the title of the "melting pot's melting pot" through its cultural history. Readers will walk down its streets past its snack stalls, fabric stores, language schools, hair salons, churches, and shrines, and you will hear English interspersed with Korean, several dialects of Chinese, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and hundreds of other fibers that make up Flushing's complex ethnolinguistic fabric.
From Summer 2024 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).