Here's a kind of fun interactive map where you can roll over different areas of the country to see which foods are disappearing in the New York Times, which ran this same artcle.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/04/29/d...

Here in Wild Rice Nation," I'm looking forward to having some of those American eels of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, or driving just a half-hour south to "Corn Bread Nation" and getting some of that mulefoot hog or Tennessee fainting goat with with Chickasaw plums and Honey Drip cane sorghum. Mmmmmm.