Sarah Lohman on Saving America’s Endangered Foods

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The Empress date. The Burbank tomato. The Sebastopol Gravenstein apple. Halali’i sugar cane. These are among hundreds of foods grown in the United States on the “Ark of Taste,” a list of endangered foods curated by Slow Foods International. For her new book “Endangered Eating,” culinary historian Sarah Lohman journeyed across the country to study some of the rare foods on the Ark, interviewing the farmers, activists, and scientists pioneering their resurgence. We talk to Lohman about the American heirloom crops and culinary traditions that are disappearing and what we can all do to help preserve them. Guests: Sarah Lohman, culinary historian; author, "Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0	Coming up on forum, culinary historian Sarah Lohman
0:54.9	journeyed across the U.S. to taste some increasingly rare foods and to interview the
1:00.0	farmers, activists, and scientists pioneering their resurgence, foods like California's
1:05.2	Empress Date, Hawaiian Legacy Sugarcane, and the Carolina African Runner Peanut. There are just a few
1:10.6	of the foods on a list of hundreds of endangered items
1:13.6	compiled by the group Slow Foods International, which is raising awareness of foods that are
1:18.6	vanishing along with their related cultural traditions.
1:21.6	Is there a food or dish that you're worried won't be around in a generation or two?
1:25.6	Lohman's new book is called Endangered Eating.
1:29.2	She joins us.
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