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Rare Foods

The flavor and hue of the syrup depends on many factors, including minerals, bacteria, and time of harvest.

For Nova Scotians, Local Maple Syrup Is a Disappearing Pleasure

Sweet with notes of pine and ocean, the unique delight is under threat.

Sarah Lohman March 11, 2025

Rob Gentile flew to Sardinia to try and master one of the most intricate pastas on the planet.

The Quest to Save the World’s Rarest Pasta

For 300 years, only a handful of women in Sardinia possessed the skill to create “threads of God.”

Diana Hubbell February 3, 2025

The pawpaw has a brief seasonal window, from September to October.

Foraging for America's Forgotten Fruit

A guide to finding, prepping, and enjoying the pawpaw.

Sam O'Brien September 23, 2024

Hailing from the Himalayas, Purple Karma Barley sat, dormant, in a seed vault since 1924—until OSU revived it.

Turn Your Garden Into an 'Ark of Taste' for Nearly Lost Plants

Slow Food’s annual "Plant a Seed Kit" encourages home-gardeners to cultivate rare and endangered crops.

Sarah Lohman April 23, 2024

Pöschel (left) and Schmelzer, with the mite-cheese monument in Würchwitz.

The Biology Teacher Resurrecting Germany's 500-Year-Old Mite Cheese

At this charming farm, quirk meets quark to make a unique cheese.

Susannah Edelbaum November 13, 2023

Purén White Strawberry

This rare berry grows only in two Chilean towns.

Arkansas Black Apple

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.

Oaxacan Mole Blanco

The fairest and rarest of them all.

Su filindeu doesn't cook in strands, it cooks in sheets.

Threads of God

To eat the world's rarest pasta, you must first complete a 20-mile pilgrimage.

Podcast: Looking for Pawpaws

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team November 25, 2021

Santa Rosa, California

Crane Melon Barn

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

Bjurholm, Sweden

Älgens Hus (The Moose House)

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

Staten Island, New York

Holtermann's Bakery

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

London, England

Algerian Coffee Stores

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Chile Cobanero

This signature pepper has been a hot commodity since the Maya era.

Bhutanese Red Rice

At 8,000 feet above sea level, glacial irrigation produces a unique heirloom grain.

Tenili

These rare, hand-pulled strands of cheese are making a comeback in southwestern Georgia.

Grimsby Smoked Fish

Five producers in one English seaside town use historic chimneys to cold-smoke salmon and haddock overnight.