“The experiences of Queens Night Market vendors are as varied as their cuisines. Some are all-in with their food businesses. Others have day jobs and work in various professional backgrounds—medical, finance, law, hospitality, education and tech, to name a few. For them, their food entrepreneurship could be a hobby or side gig. Still others do it to share their culinary heritage with the public or spend quality time with their families while working at the market. Participating vendors hail from all five boroughs.”
–Michele Herrmann, Smithsonian Magazine, May 13 2020
Here’s the article, entitled, “SAMPLE THE WORLD’S CUISINES WITH THIS COOKBOOK FROM A POPULAR NEW YORK MARKET”:
It also mentions Storm Garner’s Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project as well as the Queens Memory COVID-19 Project, and features lots of great photographs from the book by John Taggart, a brief history of John Wang’s Queens Night Market, quotes from several vendors, and even a recipe for Cambodian caramelized sweet potato by vendor-chef Sokhita Sok–yum!)
The Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project 