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Cornbread Nation
Encompassing most of the Mississippi River watershed north of the delta, Cornbread Nation features a wonderful mingling of African and European food traditions along with remnants of indigenous traditions. The rich soils, wet climate, lush habitats, and place-based cultures of this region have generated an astonishing variety of heirloom vegetables and fruits, as well as heritage breeds. Its white corns are used for hominy, grits, spoonbreads, johnnycakes, and myriad other specialties. Pride in local and regional food traditions is rampant, producing seemingly endless variants of cornbread, barbecue, burgoo, and other stews. Nevertheless, rural out-migration has weakened many of Cornbread Nation’s celebrated rural traditions, so that at least seventy-five of its traditional foods are now threatened or endangered.
– excerpted from Renewing America’s Food Traditions, edited by Gary Nabhan, with the permission of Chelsea Green Publishing (www.chelseagreen.com)
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Disappearing Foods
- Brandywine Pink Tomato
- Buckeye Chickens
- Chickasaw, Miner Plum
- Choctaw Sweet Potato Squash
- Indian Blood Free Peach
- Ingram Apples
- Kellogg's Blackberry
- Limestone Bibb Lettuce
- Old Kentucky White Sweet Potato
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Tips to preserve heritage and heirloom foods:
- Become a seed saver through the Seed Saver Exchange (seedsavers.org).
- Purchase heirloom produce and heritage livestock breeds (American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, albc.usa.org).
- If you think a food is endangered, nominate it to the Slow Ark of Taste, slowfoodusa.org.
- Support community agriculture, farmers' markets and local food groups.
- Attend events that celebrate local foods.
Read more about Renewing America’s Food Traditions (RAFT).
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Related Links
America’s Best Farmers’ Markets
Native Nutrition: A movement to preserve heritage foods
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Disappearing Foods (Full List)
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Alabama Coschatta Flint Corn
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Alice Elliot Okra
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Arkansas Red and White Dent Corn
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August Sweet Apples
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Baker Sweet Apples
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Beasley's Red Dent Corn
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Belmont Apples
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Bourbon Red Turkeys
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Brandywine Pink Tomato
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Buckeye Chickens
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Burlington Hecan Hickory
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Cherokee Purple Tomato
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Chickasaw, Miner Plum
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Chickashaw Dry Bush Bean
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Choctaw Sweet Potato Squash
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Cow Pumpkin Squash/Pumpkin
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Craggs Persimmon
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Cynthiana/Norton Grape
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Delight Persimmon
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Early Golden Persimmon
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Early Ohio Potato
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Golden Yellow Celery & Celeriac
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Grainger Shagbark Hickory
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Greenriver Pecan
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Hightop Sweet Apples
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Honey Drip Sorghum
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Huntsman Apples
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Indian Blood Free Peach
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Ingram Apples
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John Allen Yellow German Tomato
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Kellogg's Blackberry
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Kentucky Field Cheese Squash
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King of Mammoth (Mammoth) Pumpkin
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Lady Finger Rainbow Popcorn
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Limestone Bibb Lettuce
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Lincoln Pear
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Magoon Muscadine Grape
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Maygrass
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McCullar's White Topset Onion
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Mennonite Red Sorghum
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Miles Persimmon
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Missouri Persimmon
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Missouri Pippin Apples
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Moon and Stars Watermelon
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Mulefoot Pigs
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Nancy Watermelon
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Ogeechee Plum
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Ohio Calico Dent Corn
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Ohio/Mississippi River Shrimp
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Ohop Nonpareil Apples
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Old Kentucky White Sweet Potato
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Old Time Tennessee Melon
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Old-fashioned Tennessee Vining Squash
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Oliver Apples
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Ozark Razorback Cowpeas (Crowders/ Black-eyes)
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Pallid Sturgeon
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Paydon Heirloom Acorn Squash
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Pipher Persimmon
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Purple (Pumpkin) Wam Sweet Potato
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Quapaw Corn
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Red Wine Velvet Sweet Potato
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Rice Cowpeas (Crowders/ Black-eyes)
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Salts Red Sorghum
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Senator Apples
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Shui Men Jujube
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Silver Fox Rabbit
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Silver King Corn
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Southern Giant Curled Mustard
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Southern Queen Yam/White Triumph Sweet Potato
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Speckled Hansen Lettuce
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Star of David Okra
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Sudduth Pear
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Sue Pawpaw
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Sumpweed Sunflower
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Sutton's Beauty Apples
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Sweet Alice Pawpaw
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Tatum Persimmon
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Tennesee Cornfield Pole Bean
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Tennesee Fainting Goats
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Tennesee Spice Pepper
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Tennessee Red Cob Dent Corn
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Tennessee Teardrop Pepper
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Thelma Sander's Sweet Potato Squash
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Turley Winesap Apples
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Wabash Persimmon
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Wilcox Pecan
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Wilcox Shagbark Hickory
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Yates/Jewel Persimmon
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I see that the Early Ohio potato is listed on the disappearing foods list. I planted these 5 years ago. I love them. I cannot now find them. Does anyone out there know where to purchase these wonderful spuds?
Verne, Lawrenceburg, TN |
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