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A taste of this weekend’s ‘World’s Fare’ in Flushing
Photos by Suzanne Monteverdi/QNS
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
smonteverdi@qns.com / @smont76
Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens
played host earlier this week to a press conference
previewing this weekend’s World’s Fare
at Citi Field in Flushing.
More 100 food vendors, performers will
descend on Citi Field on April 28 and 29 for
Th e World’s Fare. Th e event re-imagines
the iconic 1964-65 World’s Fair — which
brought millions of people to the “World’s
Borough” — in the 21st century by off ering
food, drink, art and music from over 100
countries.
Among the vendors that participated in
the April 23 press conference were Bushwick
Taco Company’s Josie Canosie, who will
serve Filipino-fusion from her new undertaking,
Bangad & Bougie. Pork is king at this
vendor, which specializes in pork belly sisig
paired with with ube (or purple yam), pork
rinds and pomegranate seeds.
“Our booth is gonna have a really cool display,”
Canosie said. “We’ve been busy preparing
this week. We’re really looking forward
to the festival.”
Mansi’s Filipino calamansi juice and
Mexican chapulines (or grasshoppers) from
Merci Mercado will also be featured in some
of Bangad & Bougie’s dishes.
Katherine Fuchs, chef and co-owner of
Australia-inspired eatery Th e Th irsty Koala,
will serve Australian lamb rubbed in indigenous
spices, paired with a spicy salsa and
pesto. Th e Astoria eatery opened in 2012.
“Th e World’s Fare is a very cool concept in
that it introduces Queens as being a borough
for foodies,” Fuchs said. “Everybody talks
about Brooklyn and Manhattan and how all
the good stuff is there, but I say no: there’s a
lot of the innovation going on here in this
borough and we need to be recognized for it.”
Vendors from Eons, Tea and Milk and
Joey Bats Café also previewed their food at
the event.
Restaurants and vendors were carefully
curated by a team of culinary experts, led
by journalist and culinary historian Jessica
Harris, Singaporean food expert KF Seetoh
and renowned Danish chef Claus Meyer.
Tickets to the event, which will run from
noon to 8 p.m. on both days, can be purchased
at theworldsfare.nyc.
Beers from over 500 countries will also
be on tap at the festival’s International Beer
Garden, which off ers a collection of 80 brews
from 45 breweries. Each International Beer
Garden ticket allows the attendee access to
a two-hour tasting period with unlimited
tastings.
Live cultural music and dancers on two
stages, a 4-dimensional art installation, and
a visit from Yama, the largest sumo wrestler
in the northern hemisphere, are also part of
Th e World’s Fare.
“We are thrilled that this weekend is fi nally
coming. We’ve been working on this for
a couple of years,” World’s Fare president
and organizer Joshua Schneps said. “We
put together a group of culinary leaders to
help us fi nd these great restaurant and chefs.
It’s been highly curated.” (Schneps is also
co-publisher of the Courier).
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz
called the festival “a great tribute to our
World’s Fair.”
“We are an amazing borough here in
Queens. We are 190 languages, 200 countries,”
Katz said. “With all of the diff erent
countries folks are coming from, they’re
bringing their own foods and tradition
and traditions and language and dress.”
For a full list of vendors and tickets for
Th e World’s
Fare, visit
theworldsfare.
nyc.
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