Family Preserves: Home-Cooked Stories from Immigrant Kitchens is a visual anthology spotlighting the cultural identities of immigrant American families through food, memory, and tradition. Over six years, photographer and writer Cielito Mercado Vivas traveled across six states, documenting thirteen families with roots around the world through intimate kitchen portraits, extensive interviews, and accompanying narrative essays. Through these multigenerational stories, Vivas explores food as a source of comfort, a vessel for cultural inheritance, and a battleground for assimilation. Together, the stories reveal the complex landscape of immigrants and their children building lives in America.