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| Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity |
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04/06/2009 |
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The journey of the Ark of Taste continues
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The Ark of Taste continues its quest to seek out forgotten tastes at risk of extinction.
 Canada has recently added three new Ark products: Wild Saskatoon Berry (in the photo: blue in color, sweet and juicy with an aftertaste of marzipan), Nodding Onion (an important traditional food for the Salish people, whose leaves are boiled and the bulbs cooked in earth ovens), Miner’s Lettuce (a wild salad plant at one time used by miners as a source of Vitamin C to prevent scurvy).
In Portugal the Ark of Taste has included the Tarreste Bean, grown in the mountainous parts of the Arcos de Valdevez area. It is a small, kidney-shaped bean with a thin skin and variable color (ranging from beige to white, yellow, chestnut, black or red). It has a creamy velvety texture.
In Austria the Ark of Taste has embraced the Orchard Peach and Giant Aspern Radish. The peaches are traditionally grown in the vineyards of the main Austrian winegrowing areas. The fruit are small and greenish with a few intense red spots; the flesh almost white and the flavor aromatic with slight tartness. For this reason it provides excellent refreshment while working in the vineyards and is perfect for making jam. The giant Aspern radish (from the municipality of Vienna), despite its size (the bulb has a length between 4 and 6 cm), is crunchy and hard, juicy and slightly sharp.
Italy has embarked the traditional genepy from the Cuneo valleys (Piedmont) and the Mormanno lentil (Calabria).
Full descriptions of all Ark products are available on the Foundation website.
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