Feb 20, 2024 | Ark of Taste, Biodiversity, EIJ
This Black History Month, Slow Food USA is celebrating the historic and present-day value of three Ark of Taste crops that are farmed today, have significance for Black communities and promote our mission of good, clean and fair food.
Oct 15, 2023 | Ark of Taste, Biodiversity, Plant A Seed, Recipe
By Mara Welton, Director of Programs I have long loved chicories — those bitter greens, reds and pinks that grace your salad mixes, often incognito. Beautiful radicchio leaves, oft mistaken for red cabbage, their maroon petals giving nutritional heft to an otherwise...
Aug 24, 2023 | Ark of Taste, Biodiversity, Food and Farming, Plant A Seed, Stories
By Mara Welton, Slow Food USA Programs Director John Forti, Maine-based ethnobotanist and former Slow Food chapter leader has explored the human connection to food through the study of botanical history, storytelling and historical garden curation. He has done this in...
Dec 6, 2022 | Ark of Taste, Biodiversity, Food and Farming, Take Action
By Makiah Josephson, Slow Food USA Communications Coordinator Did you know that there are more than 2,000 fruit varieties in North America? These fruit varieties are far more abundant than what we encounter at our local supermarkets, and many regions like the American...
Sep 14, 2022 | Ark of Taste, Biodiversity
By Marina Stylianou, Slow Food USA Programs Intern The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of foods which are distinct, delicious and endangered. We seek to put the products back on tables, preserving gastronomic diversity and biodiversity. We wanted to feature some...
Jun 22, 2022 | Ark of Taste, Biodiversity, Chapter Highlight, Slow Food Chapters
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications Coordinator In 2017, Slow Food Charleston embarked on an Ark of Taste project to preserve the iconic Lemon Cling Peach. As described by Timothy Matlack, a brewer and leader of the American Revolutionary War, to Thomas Jefferson, the...
