Author Archives: Stella Ma
Store Front Survivors Raw Materials
Chosen Store: Pesso’s Italian Ices Possible Title: Sweet Treats: A Taste of Sugar and Struggle (probably subject to change) Picture of Owner PULL QUOTES: “[Pesso’s Italian Ices] is almost like a bar kind of thing because you come here to … Continue reading
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Looking Forward, Looking Back at Bayside
Pesso’s Italian Ices is located in Bayside, Queens, a well known upper-middle class neighborhood. It’s been serving cold treats to residents in the neighborhood since 2004. After the owner, Gidon Pesso decided he wanted to make and serve ice cream, … Continue reading
Zooming In, Zooming Out on Bayside, Queens
Pesso’s Italian Ices is located in the neighborhood Bayside, Queens. It serves delicious cold treats like ices, ice creams, and milk shakes to locals in town and visitors from outside the area. While walking along the block where the shop … Continue reading
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Ethic Enclaves and Willets Point
Ethic enclaves are known as places where immigrants of the same ethnic background can settle down in without having to assimilate and acquire American skills. These places allow immigrants to thrive in an area of a culture they are familiar … Continue reading
Your Story, Our Story- The Wok
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What is “American” Cuisine?
It’s really strange to imagine the restrictions on food described in the Gabbacia reading during the period 1870 to 1900 being implemented on foreign cuisines today. Food is such a rich part of America now. There’s countless of cooking shows … Continue reading
Roberts Bicycles
Getting off the Q12 in Bayside for the second time, I waited for Kathy to drive us to our next location in the neighborhood: Francis Lewis Boulevard. We drove through thin winding roads, passing trees, green lawns, and many houses … Continue reading
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Dead Rabbits Riot and Saloons
The cause of the riot was between two gangs: the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys. Their disputes root back Fernando Wood. Wood was affiliated with Tammany Hall, a political machine, and had much power over many groups, people, and … Continue reading
Pesso’s Italian Ices
Three steps out of the car, I could spot the store at the corner of the block. On the green, white, and red canopy, a sign read the name, “Pesso’s Italian Ices,” and through the two big panels of glass … Continue reading
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Americanization
Although I am not an immigrant, I still have faced times when I have felt pressured to be more “American,” as if the culture from my Chinese parents was taboo. Gordon states that the definition of the “Anglo-conformity” theory was … Continue reading
