Architects, contractors & engineers create large sculptures made of full cans of food. Teams raise money to pay for cost of materials for their can sculptures. After the competition concludes, the cans of food are donated to organizations dedicated to fighting hunger. Since Canstruction first started in 1993, it has generated over [...]
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Table Manners
March 29 through September 14, 2008
The Arizona Museum for Youth
Table manners is at a museum in Mesa, Arizona. Mesa is Spanish for table. Coincidence? Not Very Likely. The exhibit will be very hands on. Kids will learn to use chopsticks, fold napkins, etc. They’ll use the food pyramid to plan meals [...]
The Edith Poston Egg Collection, High Speed Photography, Hervé This, and Filippini’s 1892 Book One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs
Posted in cook books, exhibits, libraries, menus on Feb 24th, 2008
Thanks to engineer & photographer Jasper Nance for her high speed image “egg drop”.
This started out as a post about Edith Poston. But the internet kept steering me toward other work people have created with and about eggs. I think Mrs. Poston would have approved.
Mrs. Poston collected eggs for more than 30 [...]
Got Food? Creating a Hunger Free Community
- March 28 2008
Worcester Historical Museum
The exhibit chronicles three hundred years of hunger relief efforts in Central Massachusetts. It sounds like quite an experience, according to this Worcester Telegram article.
Marking the 25th anniversary of the food bank, the exhibit takes a broad look at poverty and hunger in [...]