Two of our nation’s premier cultural institutions are turning the spotlight on food: growing it and the industry surrounding it. Both have opened this week.
The American Museum of Natural History has opened “Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture,” covering the growth, trade, transport, cooking, tasting and wasting of food from prehistoric times to the modern era. It’s a largely interactive exhibit, with food demos and a scheduled tasting series as well.
The Smithsonian Institution has opened “Food: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000,” which explores our diversity of food and plentitude of it. Changes in the cooking and eating landscape are covered, as well as paradigm shifts that have come with new technologies, influential people, and broad shifts in social and cultural life.
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