Nosh New York: The Food Lover's Guide to New York City's Most Delicious Neighborhoods

New Yorkers and tourists alike will happily take this culinary tour by native New Yorker Alperson (The Food Lover's Guide to the Real New York). It's not surprising that many of New York City's most appealing and interesting restaurants happen to be in mostly ethnically diverse neighborhoods. For example, Woodside, Queens's La Chanita is a""Mexican coffee shop that serves Mexican breakfasts side-by-side with Irish breakfasts,"" and Sapori d'Ischia is an Italian wholesaler by day, quaint trattoria by night; the largely Caribbean-populated area around Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn is home to Gloria's In & Out; and El Barrio, in Spanish Harlem, offers all kinds of Latin cuisine, from the Puerto Rican La Fonda Boricua to the Mexican El Paso Taqueria. Alperson weaves in history with her often fascinating culinary tour; for instance, in describing The Lemon Ice King of Corona, also in Queens--a once Italian neighborhood now inhabited by Mexicans, Bangladeshi and Ecuadorians--she recommends a stop at Louis Armstrong's house, which is now a museum.