National Museum of American History presents FOOD. Transforming the American Table 1950–2000, an exhibition opening 20 November that explores some of the major changes in food and eating in postwar America. Among the topics on the 3,800-square-foot exhibition’s menu are changes in food production and processing, in who cooks and why, where and when meals are consumed and what people know (or think they know) about what is good for them.
Julia Child’s kitchen, which she donated to the museum in 2001 along with its hundreds of tools, appliances and furnishings, serves as the opening story of “FOOD,” demonstrating her influence on the culinary field, food television and the ways many Americans think about food and cooking.
For more information on “FOOD,” the public may visit http://food.americanhistory.si.edu/.