From Farm to Canal Street : Chinatown's Alternative Food Network in the Global Marketplace / Valerie Imbruce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Imbruce, Valerie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese Americans--Food--New York (State)--New York.

Chinese Americans.

Food habits--New York (State)--New York.

Food habits.

Food supply--New York (State)--New York.

Food supply.

Produce trade--New York (State)--New York.

Produce trade.

Chinatown (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On the sidewalks of Manhattan's Chinatown, you can find street vendors and greengrocers selling bright red litchis in the summer and mustard greens and bok choy no matter the season. The neighborhood supplies more than two hundred distinct varieties of fruits and vegetables that find their way onto the tables of immigrants and other New Yorkers from many walks of life. Chinatown may seem to be a unique ethnic enclave, but it is by no means isolated. It has been shaped by free trade and by American immigration policies that characterize global economic integration. In From Farm to Canal Street, Valerie Imbruce tells the story of how Chinatown's food network operates amid-and against the grain of-the global trend to consolidate food production and distribution. Manhattan's Chinatown demonstrates how a local market can influence agricultural practices, food distribution, and consumer decisions on a very broad scale.Imbruce recounts the development of Chinatown's food network to include farmers from multimillion-dollar farms near the Everglades Agricultural Area and tropical "homegardens" south of Miami in Florida and small farms in Honduras. Although hunger and nutrition are key drivers of food politics, so are jobs, culture, neighborhood quality, and the environment. Imbruce focuses on these four dimensions and proposes policy prescriptions for the decentralization of food distribution, the support of ethnic food clusters, the encouragement of crop diversity in agriculture, and the cultivation of equity and diversity among agents in food supply chains. Imbruce features farmers and brokers whose life histories illuminate the desires and practices of people working in a niche of the global marketplace.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Situating Manhattan's Chinatown

1. Greengrocers and Street Vendors

2. The Social Network of Trade

3. Okeechobee Bok Choy

4. Bringing Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States

5. Growing Asian Vegetables in Honduras

6. Chinese Food in American Culture

7. Chinatown's Food Network and New York City Policies

Conclusion: Diversity and Dynamism in Global Markets

Appendix A: Produce Vendors in Chinatown

Appendix B: Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, and Herbs Sold in Chinatown

Appendix C: Food Plants Found in Southeast Asian Homegardens in Miami-Dade County, Florida

Appendix D: Research Methods

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780801456862

080145686X

9781501701238

1501701231

OCLC:

1080551603