Our New York Table
Our New York Table
Podcast Description
The podcast about food, the people who make it, and what brings all of us to the table.
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Content Themes
Explores themes of cultural identity, personal stories, and community building through food, with episodes featuring topics like immigrant cooking traditions, healing through cuisine in human trafficking narratives, and the importance of preserving family recipes.
The podcast about food, the people who make it, and what brings all of us to the table.
When Fares Zedeia left Palestine as a teenager, he believed he’d return. Instead, he had to watch from afar as his homeland was torn apart. For years, he searched for his place in the world — a search that eventually led him to a food cart on a New York City sidewalk.
In this episode, I sit down with Fares “Freddy” Zedeia, the King of Falafel and Shawarma himself. Over a platter of his signature falafel, juicy shawarma, and tender kebab, we talk about his journey from cab driver to king — and how food becomes identity and a way to survive when home is far away.
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EPISODE CREDITS
Produced & Edited by Diane Bezucha
Music
- “Coronea” by Blue Dot Sessions from the album Marisala, (2017)
- “Somewhere in Punjab” by SergeQuadrado
- Cooking Food Music by BackgroundMusicForVideos
- Upbeat Together Worldbeat Emotional World Uplifting Music by REDproductions
- “Cast in Wicker” by Blue Dot Sessions from the album Aeronaut, (2017)
- “Watermarks” by Blue Dot Sessions from the album Crab Shack (2018)
- “City Limits” by Blue Dot Sessions from the album Albany, NY (2015)
- “Armenia” by SergeQuadrado
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