Global Food Kitchen: American Museum of Natural History
What did you eat today?
Whether you sat down with family or friends or grabbed a bite on the go your meal was shaped by history and nature.
That cup of tea had its start in the highlands of Tanzania but the milk you add is from a local Dairy; a chicken laid your eggs in a backyard in Brooklyn, but that pepper on top is a pinch of India, and even if your rice was steamed in Guangdong, the sugar to sweeten it may have come from Brazil half a world away.
What you choose to eat shapes the planet. Your food choices may be personal, but our food system is vast; your choices connect you to a global web of food growing, trading, cooking, and eating. Even the simplest choices you make can have wide-reaching effects on your health, the environment, plants, animals, and people all around the world.
