As part of it's eater-based approach to agricultural conservation, RAFT
partners developed consumer, chef, and producer tasting evaluations. These
evaluations inform rare breed (and seed) reintroduction efforts.
Photo: Makale Faber

Renewing America's Food Traditions

• Overview
  
• Why RAFT?
  
• RAFT Initiatives
  
• About RAFT’s Founding Partners
  
• RAFT Publications
  
• Getting Involved
  
• News and Events

The Renewing America’s Food Traditions Alliance

NEWS AND EVENTS

RAFT In the News

• 4/30/08, New York Times, "To Save a Species, Serve It for
  Dinner"
• 11/17/07, National Public Radio " Preserving Historic Turkey Breeds in Kansas"
  
• 11/07/07, New York Times, “Preservation’s Progress”
• November 2007, Saveur Magazine, “Ruling the Roost"
• 10/10/07, Brattleboro Reformer, “Cheese makers concerned by proposed FDA regulations”
• 8/27/07, The Washington Post, “The Geography of Flavor"
• 7/23/07, The Northwestern “UW-Extension trying to revitalize American food”
• 5/24/07, Mountain Mail "Native Food Producers Signal the Way into the Future"
• Spring 2007, Flavor and the Menu, "Taste of Tradition"
• 4/19/07, The Times-Picayune, "Heritage on the hoof”
• 4/19/07, RAFT Press release: Native Foods Celebration at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe
• 11/16/2006, The Times-Picayune, Good Gourd Almighty
• Summer/Fall 2006, Chefs Collaborative Newsletter. “Connecting America’s Seeds with America’s Chefs.” p. 6.
• 12/18/2005, NPR, Endangered List Created for Native Foods
• 11/23/05, New York Times, Native Foods Nourish Again
• 04/05, OnEarth Magazine, How Green Is Our Valley
  Networks of local food growers, restaurants, and farmers' markets promote the joys of regional cuisine: flavor, prosperity, and the family farm. by Gary Paul Nabhan
• 04/05, RAFT Newsletter
• 01/25/05, RAFT Press Release: RAFT Project Sets Sail
• 10/22/04, NCBuy, First-Ever List of Endangered American Foods
• 10/27/04, NAU Today, Hundreds of traditional foods at risk: First-ever 'List' of endangered foods released
• 11/04/04, Environmental News Service,
  Endangered Foods of North Americas Listed in a New Way
• 11/25/04, Sacramento Bee, Preserving traditional foods for future
• 11/25/04, Arizona Daily Sun, Op-Ed Let's replenish impoverished Thanksgiving table