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"Lentils have been enjoyed in Europe, Africa, and Asia for hundreds, even thousands of years. This image depicts a banquet scene in Ancient Egypt
ca. 1400 B.C.E. Object 64-3, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. "

A view of case 2 of the physical exhibit including the text and materials used.

A document detailing the orientation, text and images used in case 3 of the physical exhibit.

This image depicts a cover of Science in the Kitchen, an 1892 publication by the Adventist Church teaching its adherents how to prepare healthy foods.

"Image depicts cover of ""Soy, not Oi"", a vegetarian cookbook. Over the last several decades, activists have been drawn toward plant-based diets for various reasons. For instance, Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, encouraged Black…

In 1969, a graduate student—Frances Moore Lappé—cocooned herself in the agricultural library at University of California, Berkeley. She had a question on her mind, a worry about the availability of food in the world. Researchers predicted widespread…

In response to Wendell Berry’s speech at Spokane Expo ’74, a group of activists formed the Tilth Association in 1974. Their main purpose was to promote organic agriculture—a style of working with the land that would be more sustainable in the long…

Concerns about sustainable food and farming had an impact on practices in the Pacific Northwest. Here, participants at a natural farming workshop in Arlington, WA, gather for a group photograph. 1980. Tilth collection, Cage 602, box 5, folder 180