Foodways

Summary

Long before our contemporary chefs developed the New American cuisine, farmers and horticulturists were the custodians of taste, walking their orchards, vineyards, and vegetable fields sampling fruits and saving seeds from the most cleverly delicious tree, bush, or vine. For a contemporary farmer to grow a Bronx Seedless grape is to reclaim that custodial role after almost a century and reposition farmers as the guardians of flavor and their family-owned farms as the sanctuaries of quality.