According to Forbes.com, Gary Nabhan, who edited a book, Renewing America's Food Traditions, wants serious eaters everywhere to band together to save the more than 1,000 endangered food species and varieties that Nabhan and company identify in the book. By Nabhan's definition, endangered foods range from the obscure, the Tennessee Fainting Goat, to the iconic, gumbo. That, my friends, represents a large spread indeed, and that's how Nabhan and company arrived at a list of more than a thousand endangered foods. Forbes.com reports: The effort was founded by seven organizations, including Slow Food USA, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, and Chefs Collaborative, which came together in 2004 to help conserve, restore and celebrate North America's unique food traditions. Nabhan compiled his...
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Last weekend the small, medieval town of Bra, Italy, about 50 miles south of Torino in the Piedmont, played host to the Slow Food's biennial cheese festival. The festival features cheesemakers from around the world, with special attention given to those producers crafting old recipes and local specialties (as part of Slow Food's Presidia program). The focus of this year's festival, which attracted an estimated 150,000 visitors over four days, was on the cheeses of Eastern Europe....
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