Jacqueline M. Newman is a professor emerita at Queens College-CUNY, specializing in Chinese cuisine, history, gastronomy, and food culture.
[5][6] She has also served on the awards committee of James Beard Foundation and on Board of Directors of the Food Exhibition Museum in Suzhou, China.
This involvement in Chinese cuisines in the department led her to continue earn her Masters and Doctorate in home economics.
[7] The subject of her doctoral thesis originated with a discussion with New York University Professor Ruth Linke, and involved comparing the dietary habits of culturally Chinese people in China and versus the United States.
[9][10] Her books include: She also contributed a text on Chinese cuisine to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.