The Utica Food Project is an effort to interact with and enjoy learning from communities that are long under-served. As a city with a large foreign-born population, Utica, New York (located an hour north of the Cooperstown Graduate Program campus) features dozens of spoken languages, a deep history of refugee resettlement, and scores of foodways establishments that cater to an ever-diversifying populace in the city. We have been able to learn and share stories about people and places less well known: stories that help to define a modern American dream and the power of being able to have an authentic taste of home, no matter where you come from.