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Valerie Imbruce is Grant Writer for Strategic Research Initiatives at Binghamton University-The State University of New York.
The excellent From Farm to Canal Street is lively and accessible. Valerie Imbruce describes a food contracting system that is an alternative to the dominant vertically integrated corporate system. She systematically tracks the links to Chinatown's internationally extensive food supply chain. This book offers validation of a food chain that the New York City government does not publicly acknowledge and that the city's current land use policies could effectively wipe out by encouraging further upscale real estate development in Chinatown. -Lynn McCormick, Hunter College In From Farm to Canal Street, Valerie Imbruce provides a unique perspective on food systems. -E. Melanie DuPuis, Pace University, coauthor of Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice, and Politics Valerie Imbruce deftly balances her expertise in ethnobotany with a nuanced understanding of food marketing to present a compelling, relatable and thought-provoking picture of an alternative food network based on years of extensive fieldwork. Chinatown food markets are seen by hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers every day, but who but Imbruce would dig deep to explore what is really happening, locally and globaly? The book is model food studies. -Jonathan Deutsch, Drexel University, coauthor of Food Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods
