Taste Memory Forgotten Foods Lost Flavors And Why They Matter David Buchanan by David Buchanan instant download after payment.

Taste,
Memory traces the experiences of modern-day explorers who rediscover
culturally rich forgotten foods and return them to our tables for all to
experience and savor.

In Taste, Memory author David Buchanan
explores questions fundamental to the future of food and farming. How
can we strike a balance between preserving the past, maintaining
valuable agricultural and culinary traditions, and looking ahead to
breed new plants? What place does a cantankerous old pear or
too-delicate strawberry deserve in our gardens, farms, and markets? To
what extent should growers value efficiency and uniformity over matters
of taste, ecology, or regional identity?

While living in
Washington State in the early nineties, Buchanan learned about the
heritage food movement and began growing fruit trees, grains, and
vegetables. After moving home to New England, however, he left behind
his plant collection and for several years stopped gardening. In 2005,
inspired by the revival of interest in regional food and culinary
traditions, Buchanan borrowed a few rows of growing space at a farm near
his home in Portland, Maine, where he resumed collecting. By 2012 he
had expanded to two acres, started a nursery and small business, and
discovered creative ways to preserve rare foods. In Taste, Memory
Buchanan shares stories of slightly obsessive urban gardeners,
preservationists, environmentalists, farmers, and passionate cooks, and
weaves anecdotes of his personal journey with profiles of leaders in the
movement to defend agricultural biodiversity.

Taste, Memory
begins and ends with a simple premise: that a healthy food system
depends on matching diverse plants and animals to the demands of land
and climate. In this sense of place lies the true meaning of local food.