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Focus on Flavor: Slow Food Asheville’s Heritage Food Project Careful: Plant Cherokee Purple tomatoes, and you may never go back to growing a, well, garden-variety again. At least that’s the hope of the team at Slow Food Asheville, which recently announced the Cherokee Purple as the focus of the 2017 Heritage Food Project. They see […]
Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean is 2016 Heritage Food For the 2016 Heritage Food Project, Slow Food Asheville is recognizing the Cherokee Trail of Tears bean — a shiny, jet-black bean tucked into six-inch, green-purple pods. Read more… Hendersonville Times-News July 2016 Written by Lauren Stepp
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 […]