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The Renewing America’s Food Traditions Alliance
GETTING INVOLVED
RAFT partners encourage anyone—food enthusiast, farmer, fisher, historian, scientist or educator, to more thoroughly document the history and current status of America’s endangered foods, and to propose others for listing.
In particular, we recommend that local groups adopt certain foods from their area, and propose them for the Slow Food Ark of Taste should they meet the following criteria:
- They are of outstanding quality in terms of taste—as defined in the context of local traditions and uses;
- They are at risk, as biological entities or as culinary traditions;
- They are or can be produced sustainably;
- They are culturally or historically linked to a specific region, locality, ethnicity or traditional production practice.
You can also organize an American Traditions Picnic in your area to celebrate the unique foods of your region!
We also encourage local initiatives to contact RAFT partners directly if they would like assistance in advancing food recovery efforts to safeguard and promote particular products.
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