An Unlikely Way to Save a Species: Serve It for Dinner

From flying squirrels to Bronx grapes, this article explains Gary Paul Nabhan's quest to save our national endangered foods. His new book, Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's 100 Most Endangered Foods, is said to be a celebration of our national cultural identity through food. This article also mentiones the Slow Food Movement, which, if you don't know about already, is worth looking into.

What food will you try and save?

Today's Article Suggestion is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/dining/30come.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

We're Back!

It's been a long while since Paul & I have posted, but now we're back in the kitchen and ready to share our ideas & recipes once again!

We're also starting up a new feature for the blog: Food Issues in the News. Articles about food abound. Whether they're as simple as a quick new recipe for roast chicken or as important as world food shortages & the impact of water irrigation, there certainly isn't a lack of ideas to read about.

Let's feed our curiosity together!

Today's suggestion is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/business/worldbusiness/26food.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1209218537-XgcfxeYPHA3HmUCI44RqVQ