Bibliograph

Renewing America's food traditions, saving and savoring the continent's most endangered foods, edited and introduced by Gary Paul Nabhan ; contributors, Ashley Rood ... [and others] ; foreword by Deborah Madison

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Renewing America's food traditions, saving and savoring the continent's most endangered foods, edited and introduced by Gary Paul Nabhan ; contributors, Ashley Rood ... [and others] ; foreword by Deborah Madison

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Renewing America's food traditions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

190620179

Responsibility statement

edited and introduced by Gary Paul Nabhan ; contributors, Ashley Rood ... [and others] ; foreword by Deborah Madison

Review

"Renewing America's Food Traditions is a beautifully illustrated and dramatic call to recognize, celebrate, and conserve the great diversity of foods that gives North America its distinctive culinary identity and reflects our multicultural heritage. It offers us rich natural and cultural histories as well as recipes and folk traditions associated with the rarest food plants and animals in North America. In doing so, it reminds us that what we choose to eat can either conserve or deplete the cornucopia of our continent." "While offering a eulogy to a once-common game food that has gone extinct - the passenger pigeon - the book doesn't dwell on tragic losses. Instead, it highlights the success stories of food recovery, habitat restoration, and market revitalization that chefs, farmers, ranchers, fishermen, and foresters have recently achieved. Through such "food parables, " editor Gary Paul Nabhan and his colleagues bulld a persuasive argument for eater-based conservation."--BOOK JACKET

Sub title

saving and savoring the continent's most endangered foods

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Deborah Madison -- Introduction / Gary Paul Nabhan -- TheFood Nations of North America -- About RAFT's Founding Partners -- 1. Acorn nation -- 2. Bison nation -- 3. Chestnut nation -- 4. Chile pepper nation -- 5. Clambake nation -- 6. Cornbread nation -- 7. Crabcake nation -- 8. Gumbo nation -- 9. Maple syrup nation -- 10. Moose nation -- 11. Pinyon nut nation -- 12. Salmon nation -- 13. Wild rice nation -- Epilogue: gone but not forgotten; the continentwide extinction of the passenger pigeon -- Appendix 1. RAFT List of Foods at Risk in North America -- Appendix 2. RAFT Toolkit for Community-Based Conservation and Evaluation of Traditional Foods

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