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Endangered Eats

The vines of Cherokee Trail of Tears beans grow prolifically.

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How Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans Connect a Community to Its Roots

“It’s not just preserving seeds, it’s preserving our culture, our history, our way of life.”

Sarah Lohman August 29, 2024

Hailing from the Himalayas, Purple Karma Barley sat, dormant, in a seed vault since 1924—until OSU revived it.

Turn Your Garden Into an 'Ark of Taste' for Nearly Lost Plants

Slow Food’s annual "Plant a Seed Kit" encourages home-gardeners to cultivate rare and endangered crops.

Sarah Lohman April 23, 2024

Scio kolaches often come with apricot or sweet poppy-seed fillings.

Saving the Scio Kolache

A local take on a Czech pastry is fading along with the community that birthed it.

Sarah Lohman April 12, 2024

When fermented tuba gets distilled, just one fifth of the volume becomes vino de cocos.

Is This Mexico's Oldest Spirit?

In the state of Colima, one man is reviving vino de cocos, a distillate that disappeared in the 1700s.

N.C. Stevens January 16, 2024

Serve your fish with potatoes "roasted in the ashes" and eat off the plank.

The 19th-Century Recipe That Created a Fish-Cookout Craze

Recreate the heyday of shad bakes with this plank-roasting technique.

Paula Marcoux July 10, 2023

Charvy checks on batch 108.

The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon

Nicolas Charvy is bringing a culinary art back to its ancestral home.

Emily Monaco January 27, 2023

Sange Norbu milks a yak in Northeast India.

The Last Cheesemakers of the Eastern Himalayas

India and Bhutan's yak herders face steep challenges.

Jitaditya Narzary June 8, 2022

Senegalese Nem

Senegal's popular spring rolls tell a story of war, love, and colonialism.

Su filindeu doesn't cook in strands, it cooks in sheets.

Threads of God

To eat the world's rarest pasta, you must first complete a 20-mile pilgrimage.

Chicago, Illinois

Calumet Fisheries

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia

Manyate Coffee Village

An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.

An artist rendering of the Open Orchard on Governor's Island.

A Franken-Forest of Fruit Trees Is Growing on Governors Island

The project will rescue forgotten peaches, plums, and apricots.

Marina Wang June 22, 2020

Sudbury, Massachusetts

Sky Bar

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

Blenheim Apricot

Snap judgments may spell trouble for what was once the king of California apricots.

Canastra Cheese

This traditional Brazilian raw milk cheese is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over government regulation.

Beaver Dam Pepper

A pepper so good, Hungarian immigrants carried it with them when they came to Wisconsin.

Pantaneiros are rounded up to be returned to the farm for milking and health checks in Aquidauana, Brazil.

The Endangered Cow Being Saved by Cheese

Bovine researchers believe the world needs the only cow adapted to the largest tropical wetlands.

Sarah Brown June 10, 2019

Tupelo Honey

Beekeepers in the United States' southeastern swamplands are fighting to preserve this smooth, sweet delicacy.