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Slow Food USA's Ark of Taste

Slow Food's Ark of Taste aims to rediscover and catalogue forgotten flavors, documenting excellent food products that are in danger of disappearing. Since the international initiative began in 1996, more than 750 products from dozens of countries worldwide 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. Click here to view US Ark of Taste product profiles.

Ark of Taste nominations in the United States are evaluated by the US Ark-Presidia Committee. Committee members are Slow Food leaders in their region, who identify, nominate and promote US foods and food traditions that support the Ark of Taste and Presidia projects. The committee evaluates Ark nominations on an on-going basis and regularly accepts new members on the committee. Click here to to learn about criteria for Ark of Taste product selection

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 Cheeses  Creole Cream Cheese California Dry Monterey Jack Cheese Fruits  American Heirloom Apples Capitol Reef Apple Gravenstein Apple of Sonoma County Blenheim Apricot Popenoe avocado Puebla Avocado Bronx Grape Charbono Grape of California Napa Gamay/Valdiguie Grape of California Norton Grape Meyer Lemon of California's Central Coast 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 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 quin 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 Buckeye chicken Delaware chicken Dominique chicken Java chicken Jersey Giant chicken New Hampshire chicken Old Type Rhode Island Red chicken Plymouth Rock chicken Wyandotte chicken Spanish goat Tennessee Myotonic goat American Buff goose

Meat & Poultry  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 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  American Artesanal Cider Traditional American Root Beer Shrub Greenthread tea Other  Guajillo honey Tupelo honey Alaskan Birch syrup Traditional Cane Syrup Traditional Sorghum syrup

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