In her new book, Endangered Eating, Sarah Lohman chronicles disappearing foods – and why they need protecting
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    Her journey across the United States resulted in her latest book, Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods, which came out in October.

    To report the book, she clambered up ladders in Coachella valley to examine rare dates dangling from palm trees.

    She flew to South Carolina to visit a farm where a food historian was growing a type of peanut previously thought to be extinct.

    They catalogue thousands of international and hundreds of national foods that are considered delicious, distinctive and worthy of protection.

    Hawaiian resorts have a huge effect on native and agricultural plants, as people’s homes are being bought up and their backyards bulldozed.

    In 2016, I reviewed your previous book, Eight Flavors, which argued that American cuisine is constantly expanding to encompass new food traditions.

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