Anne Noyes Saini
Anne Noyes Saini covers food culture, immigration, women, and the elderly in New York City.
Anne Noyes Saini produces WNYC's The Sporkful food podcast and is co-creator of the MOTHER podcast.She covers food culture, immigration, women, and the elderly in New York City — especially in Queens, where she lives.She has contributed to NPR The Salt, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Narratively, Serious Eats, VICE, Feet in 2 Worlds, Real Cheap Eats and City Limits magazine.
Pigs’ feet and roasted ginger made my traditional postpartum month off
In Chinese tradition, women who give birth are supposed to spend a month indoors with their new babies. It’s not easy to follow that tradition here in the US, but one second-generation Chinese American woman in New York City did savor one part of the tradition — special foods made by her mother-in-law.