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In 2018, a chef in Copenhagen paid $300 for a single kilo of heirloom rye — a grain that had not been grown commercially in Denmark for sixty years. T...
Walk into any high-end bakery or farmers' market and you'll see them: bags of einkorn flour, bottles of argan oil from a single cooperative, jars of '...
The ramps came back strong last spring. Then the diggers came back stronger. By May, the patch that had fed your kitchen for three years looked like a...
Heirloom ingredients are having a moment. Red Fife wheat, Mayan cacao, Carolina Gold rice—these names appear on menus and labels as badges of authenti...
The same week a James Beard–nominated baker in Portland debuted a $14 loaf made with Sonora wheat, the farmer who grew that grain was sitting on a loa...