Tuesday, June 14, 2011

What's Cooking, Uncle Sam?

The NYT points to a new exhibit at the National Archives, What's Cooking Uncle Sam?:
Americans eat through promotional campaigns, nutritional admonitions, factory regulations and gardening tips.

Many of these are engagingly documented in a new exhibition, “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” which opens later this month at the National Archives here.

Through documents, food labels, film footage, photographs and other artifacts from the Revolutionary War to the 1980s, the show offers a fascinating and at times quirky reminder of the vast and perpetual role that the federal government has played in all things edible, with goals both laudable and perverse. 
I have no idea what all that is and don't give a crap, all I care about is it gives me an excuse to post this picture.  Awesome.

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