Endangered Eating: Americas Vanishing Foods Lohman Sarah
Endangered Eating: Americas Vanishing Foods Lohman Sarah Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' "most endangered food." The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized…
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Endangered Eating: Americas Vanishing Foods Lohman Sarah
Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' "most endangered food." The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at "critical" risk for extinction. Apples, cattle, dates--these are foods that carry significant cultural weight. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California's Coachella Valley--but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down.
Lohman travels the country learning about the distinct ingredients at risk of being lost. But they're disappearing.In Endangered Eating, culinary historian Sarah Lohman draws inspiration from the Ark of Taste, a list compiled by Slow Food International that catalogues important regional foods. Readers follow Lohman to Hawaii, as she walks alongside farmers to learn the stories behind heirloom sugarcane.
In the Navajo Nation, she assists in the traditional butchering