The "Ark of Taste" idea was conceived at a Slow Food gathering in Torino, Italy in 1996. It is a project to identify foods with culinary and cultural significance that are facing extinction with the industrialization of our food supply. Our sampler consists of 10 varieties that have been listed by RAFT (Restoring American Food Traditions) as American Ark foods. Sampler consists of one packet each of Hutterite Bush Dry Bean, Lina Cisco's Bird Egg Bush Dry Bean, Grandpa Admires Lettuce, Tennis Ball Lettuce, Speckled Butterhead Lettuce, Eel river (Crane) Muskmelon, Jimmy Nardellos Sweet Frying Pepper, Red Fig Cherry Tomato, Sheboygan Paste Tomato, Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry.