Event - The World Eats Here Book Release: Meet Inspiring Queens Night Market Chefs in their Home Kitchens
The World Eats Here Book Release: Meet Inspiring Queens Night Market Chefs in their Home Kitchens
06.18.20, 7:30 pm
Join us for an online celebration and book release of The World Eats Here: Amazing Food and the Inspiring People Who Make It at New York’s Queens Night Market by John Wang and Storm Garner presented in partnership with The August Tree.
The event will feature Queens Night Market founder John Wang and oral historian Storm Garner speaking about their book and related projects, as well as three vendor-chefs from the Queens Night Market who will open up their kitchens to us as they prepare food and discuss some of the impact of COVID-19 on their work and livelihood.
Special Queens Night Market vendor-chef guests include: Danny Atehortua from Arepalicious making arepas; Carly and Nicole DiLena from DiLena’s Dolcini making biscotti; and Sokhia Sok from Cambodia Now making caramelized sweet potatoes.
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John Wang is the founder of the Queens Night Market, a uniquely affordable, family-friendly community event in Flushing Meadows Corona Park that has attracted well over a million visitors since it debuted in 2015. The event has helped launch 300 brand new businesses in NYC and has represented over 90 countries through its food offerings. Prior to starting the Queens Night Market, John was a corporate attorney in Manhattan.
Storm Garner is an oral historian and a multi-disciplined artist—writer, filmmaker, designer, actor, musician. Currently a Master’s student in Oral History at Columbia University, Storm adapted the vendors’ stories in The World Eats Here from her long-form interviews with them for her thesis,The Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project. This year Storm is remotely conducting a second round of interviews with Queens Night Market vendors to document their experiences of the current COVID-19 crisis.
Danny Atehortua from Arepalicious joined the Queens Night Market in 2015 and moved to NYC from Medellin, Colombia in 1992. He now has a storefront in Ozone Park.
Carly and Nicole DiLena from DiLena’s Dolcini are sisters who joined Queens Night Market in 2017 and specialize in Italian baked goods. They sell their treats all throughout NYC.
Sokhia Sok from Cambodia Now joined Queens Night Market in 2019 and moved to NYC from Phnom Penh in 2008. She has also sold food at the Queens Night Market Outpost at Rockefeller Center and during a residency at Falchi Building.