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Global
Food Heritage
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Welcome!
This
is the on-line home of The FOOD Museum,
your source for food exhibits, examination of
food issues and resources, food history, food
fun, food news on The FOOD Museum’s interactive
Blog, answers to your food questions, and the
museum’s favorite places and things, including
restaurants, cafes, books, and films. The FOOD
Museum shop is in the planning stage.
Everything you'd expect to find
in the world's only independent food museum will
be found here. For several years we have been
building online exhibits about the world's foods.
You can search for a particular food by name,
by hemisphere, and by type.
We've been putting up actual exhibits
for over 25 years, from small galleries in Brussels
and Washington to major exhibitions at the Smithsonian
and Ottawa's National Museum of Science. Our kiosk-sized
food exhibits are available for lease. We also
bring food programs to schools, festivals and
other gathering places.
The Global Food Heritage Project
is an outgrowth of our concern that places associated
with humankind's food history are endangered or
forgotten.
Mission
The
FOOD Museum is committed to connecting people
of all ages with the essential subject of food.
The FOOD Museum
celebrates food, and through its collections,
educational programs, publications and website
engages people in an exploration of what we eat
and how we eat it, where it came from, how it
has evolved, what its impact is on the world,
and what its future may be.
The
FOOD Museum is committed to the identification
and preservation of sites and artifactsassociated
with our rapidly disappearing local and global
food heritage.
Goals
To tackle childhood obesity by giving school children
enlightening offbeat experiences that nudge them
away from poor food choices and towards healthy
eating, child by child, and family by family.
To actively promote
the preservation of food heritage sites by recognizing
community initiatives from around the world.
To delve deeply
into food issues affecting people, places and
the planet itself.
To locate an appropriate
permanent home for The FOOD Museum, its collections
and the Global Food Heritage Project.
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About What We Do
The
Food Museum examines what we eat and how we eat
it, where it came from, how it has evolved, what
its impact is on the world, and what its future
may be. It researches, collects, preserves,
exhibits and explains the history and social significance
of the world's foods. The museum brings
artifacts and programs to where people gather,
both in person and on-line.
The Food Museum's research is offered on-line
to students, teachers and any people seeking answers
to food questions.
Its collections, covering a wide range of the
world's foods, are stored in New Mexico.
Its core collection, The Potato Museum, is the
world's largest on the history and importance
of the potato.
The Food Museum is committed to preserving the
history and physical evidence of our world's food
heritage. The Global Food Heritage Project
aims to develop a network of food related museums
and heritage sites. The Project's annual
Food Heritage Awards recognize outstanding preservation
efforts.
The museum collaborates with other museums on
exhibitions, and also has in-house kiosk exhibits
on 15 different food subjects.
The FOOD Museum's outreach programs explain the
importance of food. They describe where
plants and animals originated, where they have
traveled and how they have influenced culture.
The programs explore how people celebrate worldwide
with food, and how food choices influence
not only our health, but also our economy.
The FOOD
Museum is many people.
Its founding board, for The Potato Museum, back
in 1988, made possible its 501c3 status.
Lane Heard,
attorney.
Marc Messing, environmentalist.
Dr. John Niederhauser, professor
emeritus, University of Arizona, and World Food
Prize Laureate, 1990.
Dr Merle Jensen, University
of Arizona, closed environment growing expert.
Charles G. Burck, writer.
Richard Sawyer, former director
of the International Potato Center, Lima, Peru.
Dr. William C. Davison, neurologist
And
others, through the early years, made valuable
contributions to TFM:
Prof. Paul Illegems, Antwerp, Belgium
Jean-Francois Pacquet, Maransart, Belgium
Marie Wabbes, Maransart, Belgium
Johan van Geluwe, Antwerp, Belgium
James Sidgwick, Boitsfort, Belgium
Roswitha and Fred Gans, Corroy-le-Grand, Belgium,
Val di Concei, Trento, Italy
Sandra Meakin, Brussels, Belgium
Mary Ann and Jack Hill, Loudon, TN
Jackie and Walter Williams, Seattle, WA
Ann and Phil McCracken, Guemes Island, WA
Holly le Du, Walnut Creek, CA
Anneke Hogeland and Jim Porzak, Ell Cerrito,
CA
Frank Ward, Los Angeles, CA
John Barbey, San Francisco, CA
Prof. Jack Hawkes, Birmingham, England
Anita Zednik, Doha, Qatar and Santa Fe, New
Mexico
Mei Su Teng, Washington, DC
Charmaine and Ron Shutiva, Albuquerque, New
Mexico
Gayle Kinsey, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jeremy W. Sayles, Barnard, VT
Catherine Dau, Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Dr. Marian E. Zonnis, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Mark Zifcak, Camp Hill, PA
Ib Bellew and Carol Kitchel, Boston, MA &
London, England
Corie Conwell, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Frances Wells, Piermont, New York
Liz Gude, Albuquerque, NM
Joan Gussow, Piermont, NY
Dave DeWitt, Albuquerque, NM
Our
Board of Directors
Lane Heard, Washington,
DC
Meredith Sayles Hughes, Albuquerque,
NM
Tom Hughes, Albuquerque, NM
Merle Jensen, Tucson, AZ
Marc Messing, Arlington, VA
Frank Ward, Ventura, CA
Anita Zednik, Doha, Qatar
Our
Staff, who does what:
Eric
Horowitz
Technician
Meredith Hughes
Co-founder, business manager, communications
Tom
& Meredith Hughes
Tom Hughes
Co-founder, educational programs, exhibits
development, web design
Gayle Kinsey
Financial and technological services
Monika
Nesser
Museum shop, merchandise development
and marketing
John Sayles
Collections inventory and photo cataloging
"Seeds of Change," the Smithsonian Institution's Quincentenary
Exhibition, guest curators.
"The Amazing Potato," National Museum
of Science and Technology, Ottawa.
"Gaelic Gotham-The Irish in New York,"
Museum of the City of New York.
"Seeds of Change II," Corpus Christi
Museum of Science and History, Texas.
"Heritage of the Andes," Maxwell Museum
of Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM.
TFM kiosks, Wild Oats Market, Albuquerque.
"Voici La Pomme de Terre," International
Potato Exposition, Belgium.
Professional
Organization
(current or former affiliations)
Association of Independent Museums
American Association of Museums
Living Historic Farms & Agricultural Museums
New Mexico Association of Museums
Sample
Media coverage
Newspapers
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Boston Globe
The Christian Science Monitor
The International Herald Tribune
The Wall Street Journal
Albuquerque Journal
The Times of London
TV/Radio
NBC Nightly News
Late Night with David Letterman
Good Morning, America
CBS Overnight with Charlie Rose
CBS Radio-Charles Osgood
National Public Radio
CBC Radio
Irish Television
Japanese Independent Television
Mentioned in
these books
The
Directory of Museums,
Kenneth Hudson, editor
Little
Museums: 1000 American Showplaces by Lynne
Arany
Organized
Obsessions by Deborah M. Burek
America's
Strangest Museums by Sandra Gurvis
Great
American Food Almanac by Irena Chalmers
Featured in:
Denver International Airport
Concourse Exhibits
"The Irish Potato" a documentary film for
Irish television
Lectures
& Appearances
Asian Potato Association Triennial, Kunming, China
The National Arboretum,
Washington, DC
National Museum of American History, Washington
National Museum of Natural History, Washington
National Museum of Science & Technology, Ottawa,
Canada
Colonial Williamsburg Docent Program
Sweet Potato Friendship Society, Kawagoe, Japan.
Maryland Old Farm Harvest Days
International Potato Center, Lima, Peru
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
San Diego Science Museum
Quail Run Resort, Santa Fe
Anasazi Heritage Center, Cortez, CO.
Geography Alliance Annual Meeting.
Educational
programs:
Rio Grande Valley Library System
Albuquerque Public Schools
Isleta Pueblo Gifted and Talented
Navajo Pine High School Teen Leadership.
Rio Grande Nature Center
Texas Pubic Schools
Association of Gifted and Talented
Sandia Labs Science Teacher Training
Albuquerque P.S. Teacher Training
El Camino Real International Heritage Center
Photo
resource for:
Smithsonian Magazine
The National Geographic
The World and I
SITES Smithsonian
WGBH-TV, Boston
Knopf Publishing
California Academy of Sciences
The Potato Board
Books
Plants
We Eat series
Gastronomie:
Food Museums & Heritage Sites of France
(Bunkerhill Publishing)
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Issues
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at <foodmuseum.com> so that we can take
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must be cleared by us for use.
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