Vegetables of yore tickle modern taste buds: cultivating a real connection to the past by preserving a country's food and plant heritage is a serious business. And one Swiss organisation, Pro Specie Rata (PSR), a not-for-profit institute, is helping Swiss diners and plant-lovers take a trip down memory lane--with the assistance of the Coop super-market chain.

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Vegetables of yore tickle modern taste buds: cultivating a real connection to the past by preserving a country's food and plant heritage is a serious business. And one Swiss organisation, Pro Specie Rata (PSR), a not-for-profit institute, is helping Swiss diners and plant-lovers take a trip down memory lane--with the assistance of the Coop super-market chain.

Blue potatoes, which turn violet when cooked, knobbly vegetables that to the untrained eyes look like tomatoes shaped like bell peppers, carrots which are unusually long and yellow--these are just three 'blasts from the past' from 30 vegetable varieties on sale at Coop, Switzerland's second largest supermarket. All are sold under the label,...

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