{"id":38,"date":"2025-12-16T17:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2025-12-17T02:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:19:44","slug":"interactive-map","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/interactive-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NYC Guide for Vegan Caribbean Cuisine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We intend to explore cuisine and restaurants of the Little Caribbean community in Brooklyn, NY: recognizing <strong>food as a form of resistance<\/strong>, healing, and expression of identity. These spaces comfort through traditional dishes while promoting veganism with other healthy options, via Caribbean cuisine to a historically underserved Black community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By creating an interactive map of Caribbean-owned spaces, we aim to increase their visibility and accessibility. The Google Maps link is on the website&#8217;s &#8216;Interactive Map&#8217; page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three key aspects underlie the importance of amplifying these restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These restaurants act as resistance to gentrification. They fight against the abundance of unhealthy food options <strong>outside<\/strong> of Caribbean cuisine. Spaces with traditional Caribbean cuisine fight appropriation by having a space that fosters <strong>cultural memory<\/strong> through meals\/ingredients, preparation style and aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free Black people in 1838 established the neighborhood Weeksville, now in Crown Heights. Named after founder James Weeks, it provided economic and political opportunities for Black people to thrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The restaurants in this haven strive to create spaces to provide people cultural education and promote well-being. Thus, this corner of NYC now centers the long-standing legacy of Black communities as refuge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refuge manifests in the outlined Black and female owned businesses <strong>providing third space<\/strong> to underserved community. Providing options connecting to and serving the area&#8217;s Caribbean population circumvents the impact of the abundance of mostly fast and deli food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Circumvention connects back to the community impact of The Black Panther Party. &#8220;Liberation schools&#8221; with the Free Breakfast for Schoolchildren program reflect upon <strong>food justice<\/strong> as a vessel for cultural education. History thus rhymes between The Black Panthers and the businesses the map further outlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/120\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-4.17.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85\" style=\"width:446px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/120\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-4.17.05-PM.png 488w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/120\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-4.17.05-PM-300x285.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Snipped from the menu of Aunts et Uncles<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Guide for Vegan Caribbean Cuisine We intend to explore cuisine and restaurants of the Little Caribbean community in Brooklyn, NY: recognizing food as a form of resistance, healing, and expression of identity. These spaces comfort through traditional dishes while promoting veganism with other healthy options, via Caribbean cuisine to a historically underserved Black community&#8230;. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/interactive-map\/#more-38\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":808,"featured_media":53,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/food-project-25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}