Project Plate is a project exploring the intersection of food, immigration, and public health. Through interviews, storytelling, and research, the project highlights how access to food and culturally meaningful ingredients shapes health, identity, and community.

Centered in Houston, Project Plate focuses on immigrant communities and the restaurants, markets, and people who preserve food traditions while navigating barriers to access. By documenting these stories, the project aims to make visible the often-overlooked relationship between where people live, what they can eat, and how they nourish themselves.

Project Plate combines anthropology and public health to better understand food deserts, food insecurity, and nutrition through lived experience. At its core, the project believes that food is more than sustenance — it is culture, memory, and a fundamental human right.