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

Black Friday Deals in Books now live! Click here to see all deals: http://amzn.to/2gdRQ5r Available in Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Farm-Canal-Street-Alternative-Marketplace/dp/080145686X%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJQ6R7QMBXJDW4JLA%26tag%3Dclipadvise-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D080145686X More Commerce Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Restaurant & Food Chinese State & Local Food Science Politics & Social Sciences recipes: Available: http://clipadvise.com/books/item?id=080145686X From Farm to Canal Street: Chinatown's Alternative Food Network in the Global Marketplace 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. ISBN 080145686X Author: Valerie Imbruce Publisher: Cornell University Press Rank: 80 (4) - Amazon: 4 (4) Common terms: 080145686X, Chinese food, dim sum, fried rice, dumplings, chow mein, spring rolls, dumplings, kung pao chicken, sweet and sour, wonton, chicken chow mein, peking duck, noodles, chinese recipes, sweet and sour pork, asian food, chinese noodles, kung pao, char siu baozi, china food, chicken dumplings, vegetable fried rice, ma po tofu, noodle soup, kung pow chicken, asian cuisine, easy fried rice, chinese dishes, chinese cuisine, jiaozi, chinese desserts, beef chow More Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiSVhAqdaGg&feature=youtu.be&list=PLQfQYq0WjUUo7EDmBD4sRwhxob3aTAwsM Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHF6GLpdnZUEGNCrtza5Xyg