 | Hungry Planet
10/26/2009 1:45 PMFrom potato chips to Pocky, culturally significant snack foods from around the world will be featured at the opening reception of the new exhibit “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 at the University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History, 10 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis.
The International Snack Food Tasting event marks the start of 29 weeks of Thursday evening programming on the topic of food. Thursday events will explore a range of food-related topics, from lectures on the anthropology of table manners and exhibit walkabouts on food and culture to tastings of local produce and films like "Julie and Julia." Thursday evening programming is free with museum admission.
The "Hungry Planet" exhibit is a colorful examination of the issues of food in the 21st century -- what people around the world eat, how much it costs and where it comes from. Based on the bestselling book by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusio, Hungry Planet focuses on 10 cultures, many with ties to Minnesota, and lets visitors "shop" for global produce from world markets and track that food as it travels from field to fork. The exhibit features special sections on the rise of fast food culture, the evolution and history of food plants, current and ancient agricultural methods and the practice of raising and eating meat.
Thursday evening programming is free with museum admission. For a complete listing of Thursday night events, visit www.bellmuseum.org
The Bell Museum is part of the university's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. More than a half a million Minnesotans are reached each year by programs operated by the Bell Museum, which is Minnesota’s official natural history museum.
Contacts: Nina Shepherd, Bell Museum, (612) 624-7389, sheph001@umn.edu
Patty Mattern, University News Service, (612) 624-2801, mattern@umn.edu
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