I am obsessed with FOOD. I love food. I love eating, cooking, buying, growing (even thought at this I am a failure) but especially, nowadays, knowing where my food comes from. Since the latter is kind of a new thing for me, when I heard about the new exhibition at the History Colorado Museum named FOOD, I thought, “this is calling my name.”
The exhibit has a small extra charge, which is a bummer, but since it is a traveling exhibition it is worthy of the extra fee. Located on the 4th floor, as soon as the elevator opens, a path of tomatoes, chilies, lemons and carrots will lead your being to a magic, informative and definitely tasty world.
In this world, visitors will find how small corn used to be. You will learn how the juicy, sweet, refreshing watermelon was everything but at its beginning, or which cultures shape square this beloved fruit for storage purposes. Moreover, you will swim through smells like chocolate, lavender, oregano, and I hope you like garlic. At the same time, you will realize what happens when you can not smell your food.
Movies play throughout the exhibit taking you on a trip to different cultures, flavors, colors and traditions around the planet. Showing the importance and differences in the relationship between humans and food.
FOOD takes you on a journey of products, from the moment they are strewed to the moment they are placed on your table. Helping to recognize the changes food has gone through, from size, color, taste, forms of production, ways of trade or acquisition, and the ways humans have changed their eating habits.
Initially, the exhibition might seem a little too academic, because there is a serious amount of reading. However, as soon as you are out of that curve, all of your senses are called to be part of this magnificent experience.
While navigating this exhibit you can:
- Learn how to make hollandaise sauce or tamales on a virtual kitchen
- Challenge your chopsticks abilities
- Taste the product of the day in the kitchen
- Discover the diets of Gandhi, Phelps and others.
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| Guess whose breakfast this is |
At the end of the day, what I liked the most about FOOD was that in a very entertaining way, it educates goers about the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
I left the exhibition questioning myself about waste, abuse, eating habits and food shortages. Moreover, I left thinking of ways to help solve these problems. Simple solutions as Urban farming, food sustainability and the consumption of Earth’s resources.
I firmly believe in the saying “we are what we eat”. However, in the process of feeding ourselves better food, we have to consider that food and humans are part of a larger ecosystem, that has to be healthy in order to provide us with a better life.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR FOOD, LOVE THE PLANET.
Bring your kids for special Global Kitchen Family Days.
History Colorado Museum
Museum Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday Noon to 5pm
FOOD exhibit: Extra charge $5
By Loren Escandon
