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The flavor and hue of the syrup depends on many factors, including minerals, bacteria, and time of harvest.
climate change

For Nova Scotians, Local Maple Syrup Is a Disappearing Pleasure

Sweet with notes of pine and ocean, the unique delight is under threat.
Sarah Lohman March 11, 2025
Rob Gentile flew to Sardinia to try and master one of the most intricate pastas on the planet.
pasta

The Quest to Save the World’s Rarest Pasta

For 300 years, only a handful of women in Sardinia possessed the skill to create “threads of God.”
Diana Hubbell February 3, 2025
Babă neagră is gorgeously spongy.
cake

The Magic of Moldovan Black Cake

Dark, sweet, and spongy, babă neagră is a forgotten treat worth reviving.
Natalia Jidovanu January 29, 2025
David "Mas" Masumoto's Adopt-a-Tree program has helped preserve heirloom stone fruit.
farms

Inside the Japanese-American Farm Preserving Endangered Fruit

How one family turned their peach orchard into a rallying cry for saving heirloom flavors and building community.
Sarah Lohman December 18, 2024
With sweet, soft flesh, the Long Island cheese pumpkin makes a great pie.
thanksgiving

This Obscure Heirloom Pumpkin Makes a Fantastic Pie

Never a commercial success, the Long Island cheese pumpkin deserves a place in your Thanksgiving dessert.
Sarah Lohman November 22, 2024
The vines of Cherokee Trail of Tears beans grow prolifically.
native americans

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.
gardens

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.
food

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.
alcohol

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.
fish

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.
food

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.
mountains

The Last Cheesemakers of the Eastern Himalayas

India and Bhutan's yak herders face steep challenges.
Jitaditya Narzary June 8, 2022
Gastro Obscura

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.
Gastro Obscura

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.
art

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.