Disappearing Foods: Encouraging a Comeback

[amerikat]

Disappearing Foods: Encouraging a Comeback
A new book, "Renewing America's Food Traditions" by Gary Paul Nabhan, identifies 93 foods once common in American kitchens but now in danger of disappearing. Some are livestock breeds or varieties of crop plants; others are wild species such as the Carolina flying squirrel.


This article includes and interactive map of North America showing foods that are fast disappearing in your area.


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/04/29/dining/20080430_LIST_GRAPHIC.html#

Should I cross post this in the Gardening and/or cooking and baking forum?

[NMDemDist2]

1. both, and thanks n/t

[amerikat]

3. Thank you

I always enjoy your posts. You have good common sense and practical advice.

[Speck Tater]

2. Anybody old enough to remember...

"Sailor Boy Pilot Bread" in the blue and white box. (aka "hardtack", "ship's bread", or "sea biscuit"), Basically a form of bread with a shelf life of several years. A good way to store calories over the winter.

[amerikat]

4. Sounds like good idea for the emergency food stash.

I'll see if I can find it on google.

[amerikat]

5. Sailor Boy Pilot Bread.........at this link

http://www.spanalaskasales.com/shop/basic-snacks.html About 3/4 of the way down the page.

[Speck Tater]

6. Cool. The shelf life is like 10 years. (NT)

[Donnachaidh]

9. I'll bet you can find recipes for hard tack on the net

The old SOAR recipe archive used to have these recipes.

[Glorfindel]

7. Tennessee sweet potato Cushaw squash - I remember those

from my childhood. My mother used to grow them. Thanks for posting this!

[Donnachaidh]

8. Wanna grow your own heirloom veggies and help save the oldies?

Check out the Seed Savers Exchange at:

http://www.seedsavers.org/

They've got some wondrous stuff in their catalogue.

[amerikat]

10. Bookmarked....thanks

Biodiversity will be maintained in small garden plots.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. K&R for heirloom veggies.

The only thing "wrong" with a lot of these is that they aren't amenable to machine processing, or don't ship and store well. If you only buy fresh and local, that's not a problem, and you get more tasty & nutritious choices.