Savoring and Saving the Continent's Most Endangered Foods
edited by Gary Paul Nabhan, Chelsea Green Publishing
The book profiles more than ninety heritage foods most at risk, detailing their folk histories, their causes of endangerment, the efforts to recover them, and offering historic recipes with which to savor them once they've been recovered.
The book's appendix lists over 1,000 unique livestock, vegetables, fruits, fish and game at risk in North America.
To order the book, visit Chelsea Green Publishing .
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Q&A: An Interview with editor Gary Nabhan and contributor Makalé Faber-Cullen of Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving the Continent's Most Endangered Foods.
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008
Download the short version of the Q&A (PDF 2.25 M)
Download the long verions of the Q&A (PDF 3.26 M)
Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions
“Salmon Nation's coastal rainforests, muskegs, mudflat clam beds, Palouse prairies, and river canyons look and feel unlike any other in the world. You can sense the distinctiveness of this eco-region wherever you travel within it—from Alaska, the Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, western Montana, Oregon, and northern California. But Salmon Nation also tastes unlike any other place—from its huckleberries and Oregon grapes to its Dungeness crab and alder-smoked salmon…."
To learn about the endangered heritage foods of Salmon Nation and about how to participate in their recovery, purchase this book http://www.ecotrust.org/publications/renewing_SN_foodtraditions.html
RAFT Press Kit
This includes highlights from the 2007 "American Traditions Picnics", Causes of Food Endangerment, a short list of RAFT Foods for which Recovery efforts have begun, a Short List of RAFT Foods that Should No Longer Be Eaten Until
Several Generations of Recovery Occur, a RAFT List of Food Species and Varieties at Ri sk by Region, and much more.
Download the RAFT Press Kit (PDF 73.8k)
