While government agencies busy themselves with solving our nation’s financial woes, creating jobs, and addressing aging infrastructure, Slow Food USA today issues a report on their most dire concern: the future of heirloom apple varieties. “Apples are the canary in the coalmine,” they warn. “The decline of traditional, American varieties exposes the impact that our industrialized food system is having. We are losing our delicious, edible history.” Now, we kid Slow Food a bit, because hey, we love ourselves a good Gravenstein or Nodhead, but really, a whole fifteen-page report? Assuming you have nothing better to do with your afternoon, you can download the whole thing here. Or just go to a farmers’ market and grab a couple of Dula Beauties. [Grub Street]
