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2016 Heritage Food Project highlights Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean For its 2016 Heritage Food Project, the local chapter of Slow Food International will highlight the Cherokee Trail of Tears bean, an heirloom varietal that memorializes the forced relocation of the Cherokee people in the mid-19th century from their traditional lands to Oklahoma Territory. Mountain […]
Slow Food Asheville is excited to announce our 2016 Heritage Food Project. The votes have been cast in our community effort to select a heirloom bean variety to feature for the project, and the selected variety is the Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean. This bean, an heirloom memorializing the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians […]
Asheville Heritage Food Project celebrates endangered vegetable and fruit varietals REVIVING THE NANCY HALL: A recent party hosted by Slow Food Asheville invited participants of the organization’s inaugural Heritage Food Project to contribute potluck dishes made with the project’s chosen vegetable for 2015 — the endangered Nancy Hall sweet potato. Mountain Xpress March 2016 Written […]