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Slow Food USA's Ark of Taste

Slow Food's Ark of Taste aims to rediscover and catalogue forgotten flavors by documenting excellent food products that are in danger of disappearing. Since the international initiative began in 1996, more than 800 products from over 50 countries have been added to the international Ark of Taste.

The Ark of Taste serves as a resource to those interested in reviving rare breeds and learning about endangered foods, with the goal of encouraging the continued production and consumption of these delicious foods. Ark of Taste nominations in the United States are reviewed by the Slow Food USA Ark Committee, whose members are regional Slow Food leaders. Nominated foods are reviewed on an on-going basis. Click here to to learn about Ark of Taste products and the criteria for Ark of Taste product selection.

Although the Ark is first and foremost a catalogue of products, in order to help the public find these unique foods, Slow Food USA and LocalHarvest have teamed up to promote farmers who grow or make Ark foods. Producers may now self identify in their LocalHarvest listings which Ark products they grow and sell. Slow Food USA does not review the information found in the listings, so users may want to contact the farm to confirm that all information is current. The Ark of Taste designation is not an indicator of a specific production method, such as organic or grass-fed; that information is found in the Farming Practices section of each producer's listing.

Ark of Taste Products

Grains/Cereals  Chapalote Corn Roy's Calais Flint corn Tuscarora White corn Chicos (dried corn) Wild Rice Carolina Gold rice New Orleans French bread Piki Bread Cheeses  Creole Cream Cheese California Dry Monterey Jack Cheese Fruits  Capitol Reef Apple American Heirloom Apples Blenheim Apricot Fuerte Avocado Puebla Avocado Popenoe avocado Black Republican Cherry Black Sphinx Date Gravenstein Apple of Sonoma County Bronx Grape Charbono Grape of California Napa Gamay/Valdiguie Grape of California Norton Grape Meyer Lemon of California's Central Coast Hatcher Mango Crane Melon California Mission olive Inland Empire Old-Grove orange Pawpaw Baby Crawford peach Fay Elberta peach Oldmixon Free peach Rio Oso Gem peach Silver Logan peach Sun Crest peach American Heirloom Pears Beaver Dam pepper Datil Pepper Bull Nose Large Bell pepper Fish pepper Hinkelhatz Hot pepper Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Italian Frying pepper New Mexico Native Chiles Sheepnose Pimiento Wenk's Yellow Hot Pepper Chiltepin Chile American Persimmon Japanese Massaged Dried Persimmon American Plum Elephant Heart plum Inca plum Laroda plum Mariposa plum Padre plum American Wild plum Meech's Prolific quince Louisiana Satsuma (Brown's Select & Owari) Algonquin squash Amish Pie squash Boston Marrow squash Green-striped cushaw, aka Tennessee Sweet Potato Cushaw squash Sibley squash Native American Strawberry Louisiana Heritage Strawberry Pixie Tangerine of Ojai Valley New Mexico Native Tomatillo Amish Paste tomato Aunt Molly's Husk tomato (aka Ground Cherry) Aunt Ruby's German Green tomato Burbank tomato Chalk's Early Jewel tomato Cherokee Purple tomato Djena Lee's Golden Girl tomato German Pink tomato Livingston's Globe tomato Livingston's Golden Queen tomato Orange Oxheart tomato Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter tomato Red Fig tomato Sheboygan tomato Sudduth Strain Brandywine tomato Valencia tomato Moon & Stars watermelon Yellow-Meated watermelon Herbs & Spices  Traditional Sea Salt from Hawai'i Desert/Mexican oregano Handmade Filé Meat & Poultry  American Plains Bison Corriente cattle Florida Cracker cattle Milking Devon cattle Pineywoods cattle Randall cattle Buckeye chicken Delaware chicken Dominique chicken Java chicken Jersey Giant chicken

Meat & Poultry  New Hampshire chicken Old Type Rhode Island Red chicken Plymouth Rock chicken Wyandotte chicken Cayuga Duck Spanish goat Tennessee Myotonic goat American Buff goose Cotton Patch goose American Pilgrim goose Guinea hog Mulefoot hog Ossabaw Island hog Red Wattle hog American Rabbit American Chinchilla rabbit Blanc de Hotot rabbit Giant Chinchilla rabbit Silver Fox rabbit Gulf Coast Sheep Navajo-Churro sheep Tunis Sheep American Bronze Turkey Black Turkey Bourbon Red Turkey Jersey Buff Turkey Midget White Turkey Narragansett Turkey Royal Palm Turkey Slate Turkey Meat Products  New Orleans Daube Glacé Southern Louisiana Hog's Head Cheese Southern Louisiana Ponce Southern Louisiana Traditional Tasso Nuts  American Butternut American Chestnut American Native Pecan Emory Oak Bellota Acorns Nevada Single Leaf pinyon (pine nut) Shagbark Hickory Nut Pulses (beans, peas & lentils)  Arikara Yellow bean Bolita beans Brown and White Tepary bean Cherokee Trail of Tears bean Christmas Lima bean Crowder Cowpeas (Mississippi Silver Hull bean) Four Corners Gold bean Hidatsa Red bean Hidatsa Shield Figure bean Hopi Mottled Lima bean Hutterite Soup bean Jacob's Cattle bean Lina Cisco's Bird Egg bean Marrowfat bean Mayflower bean Mesquite pod Flour O'odham pink bean Petaluma Gold Rush bean Rio Zape bean Santa Maria Pinquitos bean Sea Island Red Peas Southern Field Peas Turkey Craw bean True Red Cranberry bean White Tepary bean Yellow Indian Woman bean Fish & Shellfish  Bay Scallop Cape May Salt Oyster Delaware Bay oyster Geo duck clam Louisiana oyster Olympia oyster Marbled Chinook salmon Wild catfish Wild Gulf Coast shrimp Vegetables  Early Blood Turnip-rooted beet Lorz Italian garlic Inchelium Red garlic Amish Deer Tongue lettuce Grandpa Admire's lettuce Speckled lettuce Tennis Ball lettuce (black seeded) I'itoi onion Green Mountain potato White Cream sweet potato Ozette potato Gilfeather Turnip Wines & Vinegars  Wine Vinegar, Orleans Method Prepared Foods  Kalo Poi Taro from Hawaii American Artesanal Sauerkraut Roman Taffy Candy Beverages  Traditional American Root Beer Shrub Greenthread tea Other  Boiled Cider and Cider Jelly Gallberry Honey Guajillo honey White Kiawe Honey of Hawai'i Sourwood Honey Alaskan Birch syrup Tupelo honey Traditional Cane Syrup Traditional Sorghum syrup

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