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Represents the everyday food ways of Africa’s diverse population.
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The museum has a diverse collection of advertising pieces.
There are many kinds of cookbooks and the museum has over 60,000.
Photography, in all its various forms, is a portal into the past and a vision for the future.
The home kitchen is where meals are made and memories created.
Molds are used to transform everyday foods into edible works of art.
The museum’s collection of art is an eclectic expression of creative talent.
Menus have taken on many forms throughout history.
This past June, a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) crew was on location to film for a BBC Four special, America on a Plate The Story of the Diner. Unfortunately, only those in the UK can view the program, but those
Our newest special exhibit, "Creative Survival African American Foodways in Rhode Island," opened to the public last week, and will remain open through March 4, 2012. Below are links to two stories covering the exhibition, one from the Providence Journal
You never know what you'll find when you're searching the internet This article, from September 1, 1989 was originally published in The Hour, a local newspaper for the Norwalk, CT area, and was found in a Google archives search for
Culinary Arts Museum curator and director, Richard J.S. Gutman, talks about his alter ego, "the Dinerman," in an interview with Smithsonian.com writer Sarah Saffian. Click here to go to the Smithsonian Magazine website and read the full article.
On March 8, 2011, Waypoint Living Spaces sponsored the annual meeting of the Northern New England Chapter of the National Kitchen and Bath Association. Connie Edwards, CKD, CBD, blogs about her recent visit. To read her blog entry, click here.
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