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Global
Food Heritage Project
Introduction
to Food Heritage
Date Palm
Symbol of Global
Food Heritage Preservation Project
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Food
matters.
Ask a person who is hungry.
Until relatively recently most people
spent the majority of their waking
hours either growing food or trading
labor or goods for it. Today we
have not become any less dependent
on food, of course. All of us still
need to fuel up in order to be productive.
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The FOOD Museum, a non profit 501c3,
has long been dedicated to explaining
the history and social influence of
food. Now we have created The Global
Food Heritage Project to honor not
only the foods that sustain us, but
also the ancestors who nurtured, domesticated,
developed, grew, transported, processed
and cooked these foods. The project
explores the places where food history
has been made, and spotlights the
people who continue to preserve these
traditions today.
The project's mission is to identify and help preserve
the following entities:
----food-related
museums and eco-parks. These
range from major institutions dedicated
to food, such as France's Agropolis
Museum, Switzerland's Alimentarium
and California's Copia: Art of Food
and Wine to individual or corporate
efforts at highlighting a single food,
region or industry: for example, Museo
dell'Olivo, Imperia, Italy, Musee
de la Peche, Concarneau, France, and
The American Diner Museum, Providence,
Rhode Island.
Closely akin to these museums are
temporary food-themed expositions,
exhibitions and festivals.
--areas
where various foods originated and
were first domesticated;
--historic
farms/ranches, markets, food processing
centers/factories, restaurants and
hotels;
-- places
associated with the origin of a noteworthy
recipe or food product, with influential
chefs, or food industry innovators.
In keeping with the ongoing concerns
of The FOOD Museum to raise awareness
of pressing food-related issues the
Global Food Heritage Project will
seek out food heritage-minded humanitarian
efforts such as
--seed
saver and animal breed preservation
groups;
--food
banks and famine relief efforts.
Background on why
the need for a preservation organization
for global food heritage.
Organizations dedicated to the preservation
of historic buildings, natural wonders,
and other landmark sites are well
known. UNESCO, for example,
undertakes to designate and protect
entire historic cities, industrial
sites, and so on. The National
Trust for Historic Preservation attempts
to save landmark buildings and neighborhoods.
The Nature Conservancy, the National
Parks Department and other groups
in the USA are dedicated to preserving
natural spaces. As far as we
know there are no organizations dedicated
specifically to food heritage
sites and food-related organizations.
The
Global Food Heritage Network
plans to connect food heritage
sites, museums and organizations.
The network will serve to strengthen
and promote cooperation among existing
sites and bring to life others.
Global Food Heritage sites are listed
here.
The
Global Food Heritage Awards
will spotlight organizations,
institutions, individuals and
places that are working to promote,
preserve and protect food heritage
sites worldwide. The awards
will also celebrate the foods
that sustain us all, and inspire
individuals, groups, corporations
and governments to explore, preserve
and interpret their own food heritage.
Researching
Food Heritage Sites: On the Road around
New Mexico
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CATEGORIES
Food heritage communities
Corporate food
museums
Single subject
food museums
Food history exhibits
Food
and art
Culinary arts
museums
Food origin heritage
sites
Food
exhibits within
non-food museums
Food heritage public monuments
Agricultural heritage
sites
Food museum historians and curators
Food business heritage sites
Historic food shops
Virtual food museums
Food heritage exhibit design
Food heritage
special events
Musee
compiled these lists....
Food-Themed
Museums of the World
Agriculture
& Seafood Museums
Village
& Living History Farm Museums
Beer
& Brewing Museums
Wine
& Viticulture Museums
Liquor
& Spirits Museums
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