Fast zeitgleich eröffnen die beiden weltweit ersten Food Museen: das Museum Of Food And Drink –MOFAD in New York und fünf Tage vorher, am 23. Oktober das British Museum of Food – BMOF.
Why isn’t there a museum devoted to food at the same level of something that’s like the Natural History Museum or the Smithsonian? If I want to learn about you, I’m going to go to your house and we’ll break bread. We’ll have dinner. Then I feel like I’ll know who you are. And it’s that idea that we can experience cultures through what we eat and how we eat and the history of how we eat. That (idea) needs a museum because you can’t eat on TV. You can’t read about food and have tasted it.
Dave Arnold on CNN’s The Next List, 2012