The best way to learn about other cultures, without traveling to their countries, is to visit ethnic neighborhoods and eat the food there. Delicious! - - Donna Poisl
By JOSEPH BERGER
Myra Alperson is a matchmaker of sorts.
She brings together people curious about exploring the city and introduces them to out-of-the-way neighborhoods they may never have visited. And like Napoleon’s army, her crew travels on its stomach.
An effervescent and ambulatory Zagat, Ms. Alperson has for 10 years run culinary tours that she calls NoshWalks through neighborhoods like Brighton Beach, the Grand Concourse and Richmond Hill. The other day she drew a group of 14 people to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to sample its United Nations of delights: Palestinian, Greek, Norwegian, Danish, Lebanese, Moroccan and Turkish dishes.
As they took a bite here and a bite there at the smorgasbord of groceries, bakeries and restaurants along Third and Fifth Avenues, she doled out juicy tidbits about Bay Ridge. Along the way, she demonstrated an essential secret about the magic of a city revitalized by new immigrants: that the whole world can be found in New York for the cost of a MetroCard.
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