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Collection Occupational Folklife Project

Food Processing and Food Legacy Trades

From 2016 to 2018, Makalé Faber Cullen, an environmental anthropologist, and former Director of U.S. Biodiversity Programs for the Slow Foods Foundation, interviewed twelve American food and agricultural workers as "they negotiated tradition and 21st century digital, mechanical and cultural innovations." This collection includes interviews with a wide range of specialists, including those involved with affinage (the art of aging and ripening cheese); food scientists and other agriculturalists involved in developing sustainable local and regional markets for high-quality meats, endangered fruits and vegetables, and sustainable and heritage crops; and people producing "value added" agricultural products such as leather, soap, and candles. Many of those interviewed worked at White Oak Pastures regenerative farm and ranch in Bluffton, Georgia, established in 1866.

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