The article is divided into two sections: the first part examines how first-generation immigrants are reluctant to break away from pre-migratory culinary and dietary traditions. The seemingly contradictory binary of stability and disruption is in fact less antagonistic than it seems: both are essential to transformation. The article exemplifies how in seeking to (re)create a sense home, immigrants contribute to the restructuring of public neighbourhoods. In so doing, they are effectively creating a multisensory experience that travels through food. The result is a transcultural and transculinary social space. The second part of the article uses ethnographic scaffolding to present three food markets intended for migrant clienteles and that are located in two Montreal neighbourhoods where migrant populations are predominant. The analysis confirms that transculturalism is also at play here and that older or more traditional understandings of integration are, in turn, nuanced.