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.


Annie and Rhys Cok

Pigs’ feet and roasted ginger made my traditional postpartum month off

Health

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.