AUSTRALIA’s wessex saddleback pig has been included in Slow Food’s Foundation for Biodiversity Ark of Taste register. The Australian Ark Commission’s chair, food journalist Cherry Ripe, led the argument for listing the breed in the international register, by which Slow Food highlights the conservation of foods at risk of loss. The wessex saddleback has become extinct in its native Britain but purebred strains imported to Australia early last century have led to the preservation of this important foraging breed. It is much in demand among chefs. Read about the Ark nomination.