Jacqueline M. Newman

Jacqueline M. Newman is Professor Emeritus of Queens College, the City University of New York, and editor of Flavor and Fortune, a magazine dedicated to the Science and Art of Chinese Cuisine, available by subscription at www.flavorandfortune.com. She has also been the Chairperson of the Department of Family, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, and before that, the Department of Home Economics at Queens College.

Dr. Newman is currently consultant to various food companies, journals, restaurants and related facilities; and writes a monthly column for Asian Restaurant News. Her most recent books include Chinese-American Foods, Customs and Culture, Melting Pot: An Annotated Biography and Guide to Food and Nutrition Information for Ethnic Groups in America, Second Edition, and her latest, Cooking from China’s Fujian Province.

Cooking From China’s Fujian Province

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Cooking from China’s Fujian Province (NY: Hippocrene Books, August, 2008) explores the people and foods from a province across the Straits from Taiwan. With roots in seven early Min tribes, the foods of this province benefit from an abundance of wild and cultivated foods from its mountains and fertile flatlands and access to many animals … Read more

Savoring Diversity on the Silk Road

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An important ancient set of east/west north/south highways traverse countries and cultures in Asia from China to the Mediterranean, yet they have no particular name. Now everyone knows them as ‘The Silk Road.’ They exist from antiquity, are popular and well-traveled, and are named in German in the 1870’s by Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen as … Read more