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Valerie Imbruce: From farm to Canal Street, Chinatown’s alternative food network in the global marketplace

Valerie Imbruce: From farm to Canal Street, Chinatown’s alternative food network in the global... Agriculture and Human Values (2018) 35:905–906 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9857-5 Valerie Imbruce: From farm to Canal Street, Chinatown’s alternative food network in the global marketplace Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2015, 208 pp, ISBN 978-0-8014-5686-2 Guang Han Accepted: 14 February 2018 / Published online: 26 February 2018 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018 From Farm to Canal Street, Chinatown’s Alternative Food The ethnic connections also shield Chinatown’s food sys- Network in the Global Marketplace tells a story about a tem from acquisition by multinational corporations. After dynamic, flexible, and innovative food network in New York studying the overall network, Imbruce shifts gears to produc- City’s Manhattan Chinatown. Through market research, ers. Three groups of producers have sustained Chinatown’s observations and interviews with numerous vendors, whole- food system: Large-scale ethnic farmers from the Everglades salers and producers, Imbruce draws a vivid picture of how Agricultural Area, South Florida; Southeast Asian home Chinatown’s food network has been formed, operated and is gardeners in Miami-Dade County, South Florida; and small constantly adapting. By studying Chinatown’s food system, farmers from Comayagua Valley of Honduras. Together, Imbruce manages to illustrate a unique alternative food sys- land biophysical factors, marketing infrastructure, and rela- tem, culture driven rather than http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Valerie Imbruce: From farm to Canal Street, Chinatown’s alternative food network in the global marketplace

Han, Guang
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 35 (4) – Feb 26, 2018
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Copyright © 2018 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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10.1007/s10460-018-9857-5
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Agriculture and Human Values (2018) 35:905–906 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9857-5 Valerie Imbruce: From farm to Canal Street, Chinatown’s alternative food network in the global marketplace Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2015, 208 pp, ISBN 978-0-8014-5686-2 Guang Han Accepted: 14 February 2018 / Published online: 26 February 2018 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018 From Farm to Canal Street, Chinatown’s Alternative Food The ethnic connections also shield Chinatown’s food sys- Network in the Global Marketplace tells a story about a tem from acquisition by multinational corporations. After dynamic, flexible, and innovative food network in New York studying the overall network, Imbruce shifts gears to produc- City’s Manhattan Chinatown. Through market research, ers. Three groups of producers have sustained Chinatown’s observations and interviews with numerous vendors, whole- food system: Large-scale ethnic farmers from the Everglades salers and producers, Imbruce draws a vivid picture of how Agricultural Area, South Florida; Southeast Asian home Chinatown’s food network has been formed, operated and is gardeners in Miami-Dade County, South Florida; and small constantly adapting. By studying Chinatown’s food system, farmers from Comayagua Valley of Honduras. Together, Imbruce manages to illustrate a unique alternative food sys- land biophysical factors, marketing infrastructure, and rela- tem, culture driven rather than

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