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Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate

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September 16, 2022, 10:00 amSeptember 18, 2023, 5:00 pm

Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street

New York NY

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🎟 $20, $14/students & seniors, free/ages 19 & under

Suggested Ages: All, Adult Friendly

Explore NYC’s raucous restaurant scene; its ubiquitous street food; the current activist efforts to source food locally; the world’s largest food market in Hunts Point; and the artists, thinkers, and designers who are imagining new sustainable ways to relate to food in an indoor & outdoor exhibits.

See a real piragua cart, go inside a Biosphere, look for details in a diorama of a 18th century food market and smell objects found around the city with accompanying music that matches each smell.\

Pick up a free bilingual Kids’ Guide and explore the stories of food people eat in New York City. A guide in English and Spanish includes child-friendly information about one-of-a-kind objects featured in the exhibition and enticing activities to do in the gallery and at home.

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