This essay is featured in Made Here, a celebrated cookbook that is the work of the volunteer, community based organization Send Chinatown Love. It features life stories, recipes and stunning photos of Asian American foods from the five boroughs of NYC.

This is a review of Parasecoli Fabio and Halawa Mateusz's new edited volume that focuses on the spaces that culinary entrepreneurs around the world choose to enliven – the streetscape itself, the peripheral neighbourhoods of a metropole or the post-industrial warehouse – to suggest a larger socio-economic project at play through intentional design of food experiences.

We assessed the impact of COVID-19 on closures of restaurants, food retail stores, and fresh produce vendors in New York City and found the greatest impact on Chinese ethnic neighborhoods.

This study documents the methodology used to assess fresh fruit and vegetable vendor closures in New York City following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic by using Google Street View, the new Apple Look Around database, and in-person checks.

Chinatown suffered disproportionate closures of its grocery stores, restaurants, and produce vendors due to COVID-19 as compared to other neighbor­hoods in NYC, but multiple groups and individuals use food to help the neighborhood claim their right to the city.

Documenting detailed case studies of project failure matters since projects do not always follow step-by-step protocols of preconceived and theorized processes. My chapter documents a team effort to develop a community engaged environmental studies curriculum at Bennington College.

The Materials Matter team contributes a chapter to this volume to describe our new course at Binghamton University. It draws chemistry and physics into conversation with archaeology, art history, and the history of science through an interdisciplinary focus on a particular class of materials—pigments.

In my book, From Farm to Canal Street, I tell the story of how Chinatown's food network operates amid—and against the grain of—the global trend to consolidate food production and distribution.

Immigrant farmers from Southeast Asia have brought knowledge of tropical fruit and vegetable production from their home countries to south Florida. They developed a new style of farming, a commercial ‘homegarden’. Although biodiverse agricultural systems are generally not thought to be commercially viable, Florida homegarden farmers actively manage crop diversity as an economic strategy.