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Chocolate, Chiles, Corn
& More: Foods of the Americas 
PLANET POTATO
Lunchtime Around the World
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The
FOOD Museum Guy: Tom Hughes
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A presenter and teacher for many years, Tom Hughes has
been exploring food history since the mid-1970’s, when he founded
The Potato Museum in Brussels, Belgium with his students at the International
School. Tom has worked on two major exhibitions about food, one for
the Smithsonian and one for the National Museum of Science and Technology
in Ottawa, Ontario with his collaborator, Meredith Sayles Hughes. Several
years ago they initiated The FOOD Museum and online at www.foodmuseum.com,
a virtual exploration of the world’s foods and food issues.
Tom has presented a wide range of public programs, lectures, workshops,
and school presentations. He did two national tours of schools and media
outlets in the 1980’s, with a precursor to a current program,
“Planet Potato.” Thanks to a grant from the New Mexico Endowment
for the Humanities, in 2005 Tom is presenting the program “Chocolate,
Chiles, Corn and More: Foods of the Americas” at schools and regional
museums around New Mexico.
Tom earned a Masters in Early Childhood Education from City College,
New York, and holds a multi-subject California Teaching License. He
won a Klingenstein Fellowship Award as Independent School Teacher of
the Year.
With Meredith Hughes, Tom authored The Great Potato Book,
Macmillan Publishing, as well as Buried Treasure: Roots
and Tubers, published by Lerner. The Hughes’ newest
venture is a guide to the food–related museums/sites/and shrines
of France, the mother country of the food-preoccupied. Published by
Bunker Hill Publishing in October 2005, Gastronomie! Food
Museums and Heritage Sites of France includes mini food
travel itineraries, as well as recipes from top regional chefs. The
book is intended to be the first in a series on global food sites. Next
up: the USA.
In 2004 Tom created and launched The FOOD Museum’s
Global Food Heritage Project. As part of the USA Tour Tom is inviting
selected schools to become School Partners in the project.
"First we eat, then we do everything else.”
M.F.K.Fisher
Visit The FOOD Museum (501c3) at www.foodmuseum.com
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