"Flavor is the ground of the community."
David Shields
Thank you for joining Perrot Memorial Library and The Foodshed Forum for our second Historical Foodways: Seed, Hearth & Taste book talk, The Ark of Taste. A special thank you to Deion Jones for educating us on Slow Food USA's excellent initiatives, and thank you to David Shields for sharing his extensive knowledge, and the stories around Connecticut's ark foods.
For those of you who were unable to join us, enjoy this short description of the Ark of Taste initiative by Slow Food USA. Additionally, find photos and resources below.
WHERE HERITAGE MEETS BIODIVERSITY
Slow Food's program, Ark of Taste, is a living catalog of delicious and distinctive foods facing extinction. By identifying and championing these foods, we keep them in production and on our plates. Agricultural biodiversity and small–scale, family-based food production systems are in danger throughout the world due to industrialization, genetic erosion, changing consumption patterns, climate change, the abandonment of rural areas, migration and conflict.
The Ark of Taste invites everybody to take action: In some cases, products need to be rediscovered and put back on the table, and producers need to be supported and to have their stories told; in others, such as the case of endangered wild species, it might be better to eat less or none of them in order to preserve them and favor their reproduction.
