Endangered Eating - Sarah Lohman

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Résumé :

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. Texas Longhorn cattle are categorised at critical risk for extinction. 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. Apples, cattle, dates-these are foods that carry significant cultural weight. 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. Lohman travels the country learning about the distinct ingredients at risk of being lost. 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 of a Navajo Churro ram. Lohman heads to the Upper Midwest, to harvest wild rice...

Biographie:
to the Gulf Coast, to devour gumbo made thick and green with fil? powder...

Sommaire:
to the Pacific Northwest, to spend a day wild salmon reefnet fishing...