Renewing America's Food Traditions - RAFT

What can YOU do? 

RAFT coalition members encourage anyone—food enthusiast, farmer, fisher, historian, scientist or educator, to more thoroughly document the history and current status of these foods, and to propose others for listing.

In particular, we recommend that local groups adopt certain foods from their area, and propose them for the Slow Food Ark of Taste should they meet the following criteria:

• They provide a uniquely-American gastronomical experience of pleasure;

• They are at risk, as biological entities or as culinary traditions;

• They are or can be produced sustainably;

• They are culturally or historically linked to a specific region, locality, ethnicity or traditional production practice;

We also encourage local initiatives to contact us if they would like assistance in advancing food recovery efforts to safeguard and promote particular products.
 

• What is RAFT?

• Why RAFT?

• The how of RAFT

• RAFT Publications:
  The RAFT Book
  Seafood Traditions at Risk in North America
  RAFT Regional Map of North America's Place-based Foods

• Regional workshops on traditional foods at risk

• RAFT in the News

• More about RAFT’s founding partners

• RAFT Main page

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