Food

Photo of McCall's Cheese

Part of a nation's history lies in what people eat. Artifacts at the Museum document the history of food in the United States from farm machinery to diet fads.

More than 1,300 pieces of stoneware and earthenware show how Americans have stored, prepared, and served food for centuries. Ovens, cookie cutters, kettles, aprons, and ice-cream-making machines are part of the collections, along with home canning jars and winemaking equipment. More than 1,000 objects recently came to the Museum when author and cooking show host Julia Child donated her entire kitchen, from appliances to cookbooks.

Advertising and business records of several food companies—such as Hills Brothers Coffee, Pepsi Cola, and Campbell's Soup—represent the commercial side of the subject

Date: 1990s

Farmers Market (poster)

David Lance Goines is known as a writer and lecturer as well as an illustrator and printer of both letterpress and offset lithography, his work much exhibited and collected throughout the country.
Description
David Lance Goines is known as a writer and lecturer as well as an illustrator and printer of both letterpress and offset lithography, his work much exhibited and collected throughout the country. But his Arts and Crafts influenced design is best known on his posters and in books. Goines was a recognized activist in Berkeley, associated with the Free Speech and Anti-War movements, and he did poster and book work for these movements.
Alice Waters, who founded the Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, was a founding inspiration of the fresh, local, and organic food movement. She met David Goines in the Berkeley Free Speech movement. They began to collaborate on a column, “Alice’s Restaurant” for the local alternative paper. She wrote the recipes and he provided the artwork. He collected and printed each column as Thirty Recipes for Framing and the entire set and individual prints from the set began to appear on Berkeley walls and beyond, establishing him with enough profits to buy the Berkeley Free Press, rechristened the St. Hieronymus Press.
He issued his first Chez Panisse poster, "Red-Haired Lady," in 1972 and his most recent, "41st Anniversary," in 2012. In between is a series of anniversary posters, plus occasional others celebrating the restaurant's book releases, such as the Chez Panisse Café Cookbook, and other ventures. These works established his place as the primary artist associated with food and wine in the so-called Gourmet Ghetto. His early posters for Chez Panisse were soon followed by requests from other food and wine related sites and events, as well as from many other commercial entities.
His 1991 poster, “Farmers Market” (number 148 in the Goines repertory) was commissioned by Chez Panisse on its twentieth anniversary, and made to honor their purveyors, those who supplied Chez Panisse with the fresh and local food for which they were famous. Goines was inspired by the 16th century portrait, “The Laughing Cavalier” by Franz Hals, a Dutch painter. In this instance, the Cavalier’s stand-in is a beautiful Afro-Caribbean woman, Jennifer Caminetti, with the bounty of nature drawn into and around her magnificent head wrap.
Reimagining American cuisine, which was Water’s dream, involved reviving an old food-distribution system, the farmers market. Chefs, consumers, food producers (of produce, meats, chocolate, cheese, bread), and small farmers came together, marketing to and buying directly from each other. The new farmers markets helped create a community of shared values around the quality of food, inviting collaborations. Between 1960 and 2000, the number of farmers markets grew from around 100 to over 3,000. Increasingly, market organizers are also sponsoring food education programs in their local communities. The maturation of their inspirations into environmental and societal sustainability around food has established a solid foundation for good food to appear throughout the country.
date made
1991
maker
Goines, David Lance
ID Number
2012.0089.01
accession number
2012.0089
catalog number
2012.0089.01

Tupperware® Double Deep Quartet™ Container

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04A
catalog number
1993.0257.04A
accession number
1993.0257

Tupperware® Serving Center Bowl

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04E
catalog number
1993.0257.04E
accession number
1993.0257

Tupperware® Quartet™ Seal

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04D
catalog number
1993.0257.04D
accession number
1993.0257

Tupperware® Seal for Little Wonder™ Container

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04H
catalog number
1993.0257.04H
accession number
1993.0257

Tupperware® Seal for Serving Center Bowl

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04F
catalog number
1993.0257.04F
accession number
1993.0257

Tupperware® Little Wonder™ Container

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04G
catalog number
1993.0257.04G
accession number
1993.0257

Tupperware® Midget® Container

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04I
catalog number
1993.0257.04I
accession number
1993.0257

Tupperware® Seal for Midget® Container

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04J
catalog number
1993.0257.04J
accession number
1993.0257

Tupperware® Quartet™ Container

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04C
catalog number
1993.0257.04C
accession number
1993.0257

Tupperware® Quartet™ Seal

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1993
date purchased
1993-04-13
party sponsor
National Museum of American History
maker
Tupperware
ID Number
1993.0257.04B
catalog number
1993.0257.04B
accession number
1993.0257

President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore

President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore praying before lunch, the White House, January 16, 1997.Currently not on view
Description (Brief)
President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore praying before lunch, the White House, January 16, 1997.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1997-01-16
depicted (sitter)
Clinton, Bill
Gore, Jr., Albert A.
maker
Walker, Diana
ID Number
2003.0250.077
catalog number
2003.0250.077
accession number
2003.0250

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