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In “Queens: A Culinary Passport,” Andrea Lynn offers a curated slice of Queens that’s part guidebook, part cookbook.

One of the most popular festivals in Greece falls on Aug. 15. Called Decapentaugusto (“15th of August”) or Panagias. Now a public holiday and religious holiday, in antiquity it celebrated the goddess Artemis.

Western Queens has recently—and finally—found its moment after decades of fallen expectations. Now with nearly 10,000 residential units in the pipeline, trendy restaurants, a hotel boom...