In the second installment of “The United Tastes of America,” which explores Lower Manhattan’s diverse culinary offerings, host Marcus Samuelsson sits down with Farida Gabbasova-Ricciardelli, the woman behind delectable Central Asian restaurant Farida (32 Cedar St.). Gabbasova-Ricciardelli moved to New York from Kazakhstan in 2011 and eventually opened her namesake restaurant in Lower Manhattan, offering an impressive list of Uzbek, Kazakh, Uyghur and Tadjick dishes.
Samuelsson gets some tips on what to order (the kebabs and Gabbasova-Ricciardelli’s mother’s honey cake are not to be missed), and there’s even a cameo from the matriarch herself. Watch below, and catch the whole series here.
