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Umfang: Online-Ressource (231 p)

ISBN: 9780801454042

Inhalt: 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.

Inhalt: FROM FARM TO CANAL STREET -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Situating Manhattan's Chinatown -- CHAPTER 1: Greengrocers and Street Vendors -- CHAPTER 2: The Social Network of Trade -- CHAPTER 3: Okeechobee Bok Choy -- CHAPTER 4: Bringing Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States -- CHAPTER 5: Growing Asian Vegetables in Honduras -- CHAPTER 6: Chinese Food in American Culture -- CHAPTER 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.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record , FROM FARM TO CANAL STREET; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: Situating Manhattan's Chinatown; CHAPTER 1: Greengrocers and Street Vendors; CHAPTER 2: The Social Network of Trade; CHAPTER 3: Okeechobee Bok Choy; CHAPTER 4: Bringing Southeast Asia to the Southeastern United States; CHAPTER 5: Growing Asian Vegetables in Honduras; CHAPTER 6: Chinese Food in American Culture; CHAPTER 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, FloridaAppendix D: Research Methods; Notes; References; Index

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781501701238

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780801454042

Weitere Ausg.: Print version From Farm to Canal Street : Chinatown's Alternative Food Network in the Global Marketplace

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books

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Umfang: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781501701238

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: 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 , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7591/9781501701238

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501701238

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Umfang: 1 online resource (231 pages) : , illustrations, map, photographs

ISBN: 9781501701238 (e-book)

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Imbruce, Valerie, 1977- From farm to Canal Street : Chinatown's alternative food network in the global marketplace. Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, c2015 ISBN 9780801454042

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books.

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