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Julia Child’s home kitchen—with its hundreds of tools, appliances, and furnishings—begins an experience of artifacts, documents, videos, and stories about sweeping changes from 1945 into the new century.</p> <div class="c-card__button"> <a href="/explore/exhibitions/food" class="c-button c-button--secondary">Visit the FOOD Exhibition</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-card__media"> <div class="c-card__media-inner"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/page_hero/public/2024-09/food_f_JN2019-01616.jpg?h=6043c6fc&itok=H9og02XC" alt="Entrance to the museum's FOOD exhibition." typeof="foaf:Image" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content-spotlight__bottom"> <div class="l-grid l-grid--2-col"> <div class="content-spotlight__left"> <h3>Stories</h3> <div class="content-spotlight__content"> <ul> <li> <a href="/explore/stories/chocolate-fighting-food-chocolate-bars-second-world-war" class="content-spotlight__teaser-title">“Chocolate is a Fighting Food!”: Chocolate bars in the Second World War</a><br> Article </li> <li> <a href="/explore/stories/grape-gluts-and-mother-clones-prohibition-and-american-wine" class="content-spotlight__teaser-title">Grape gluts and Mother Clones: Prohibition and American wine</a><br> Article </li> <li> <a href="/explore/stories/postwar-potluck-grilling-out-convenience-cooking-and-other-1950s-food-trends" class="content-spotlight__teaser-title">Postwar potluck: Grilling out, convenience cooking, and other 1950s food trends</a><br> Article </li> </ul> </div> <div class="content-spotlight__button"> <a href="/explore/stories" class="c-button c-button--arrow c-button--arrow-yellow">View More Stories</a> </div> </div> <div class="content-spotlight__right"> <h3>Objects from the Collections</h3> <div class="content-spotlight__content"> <div class="l-grid l-grid--3-col"> <div class="c-card c-card--on-dark"> <div class="c-card__media"> <div class="c-card__media-inner"> <div class="c-field c-field--name-field-image c-field--type-entity-reference c-field--label-hidden"> <div class="c-field__content"> <figure class="c-figure c-figure--gallery-nav-item c-figure--image"> <div class="c-figure__media"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_nav_item/public/2024-10/JN2012-1070_Ed.jpg?h=32b60151&itok=RfJEKqhM" width="350" height="240" alt="Apron" typeof="foaf:Image" /> </div> </figure> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="c-card__body"> <div class="c-card__header"> <h3 class="c-card__title"> <a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1322194"> Concepción “Concha” Sanchez's apron </a> </h3> </div> <div class="c-card__content"> <div class="c-field c-field--name-field-description c-field--type-string c-field--label-hidden"> <div class="c-field__content"> When her family's grocery store faltered in the Great Depression, Concha supported her loved ones by creating a tortilleria. She wore this cotton apron while making tortillas in her small neighborhood business. </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-card c-card--on-dark"> <div class="c-card__media"> <div class="c-card__media-inner"> <div class="c-field c-field--name-field-image c-field--type-entity-reference c-field--label-hidden"> <div class="c-field__content"> <figure class="c-figure c-figure--gallery-nav-item c-figure--image"> <div class="c-figure__media"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_nav_item/public/2024-10/RWS2018-00716_Ed.jpg?h=32b60151&itok=5kOxfG2F" width="350" height="240" alt="Wooden spoon" typeof="foaf:Image" /> </div> </figure> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="c-card__body"> <div class="c-card__header"> <h3 class="c-card__title"> <a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1862566"> Charlie Papazian's spoon </a> </h3> </div> <div class="c-card__content"> <div class="c-field c-field--name-field-description c-field--type-string c-field--label-hidden"> <div class="c-field__content"> From the 1970s onward, generations of homebrewers looked to Charlie Papazian for guidance as they worked to invent flavorful beers at home. He used this wooden spoon in his teaching demonstrations. </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-card c-card--on-dark"> <div class="c-card__media"> <div class="c-card__media-inner"> <div class="c-field c-field--name-field-image c-field--type-entity-reference c-field--label-hidden"> <div class="c-field__content"> <figure class="c-figure c-figure--gallery-nav-item c-figure--image"> <div class="c-figure__media"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_nav_item/public/2024-10/RWS2012-05503.jpg?h=32b60151&itok=NcWuyoaU" width="350" height="240" alt="Dish" typeof="foaf:Image" /> </div> </figure> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="c-card__body"> <div class="c-card__header"> <h3 class="c-card__title"> <a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1425270"> Anne L. 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