Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture

November 17, 2012 — August 11, 2013

Our Global Kitchen Pattern 1 Detail
Our Global Kitchen opens November 17, 2012.
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Behind the Scenes: Aztec Market view
The Exhibition Department is recreating an immense central market that once served Tenochtitlán, the capital city of the Aztec Empire. The market was visited by up to 60,000 people a day and, until roughly 500 years ago, no one outside the Americas had ever seen many of the items for sale here: chocolate, vanilla, maize (corn), tomatoes, or chile peppers.
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Preparing Food for Aztec Market
Preparators create gourds that will be featured in the Aztec market. Residents of the Aztec Empire ate mostly plant foods.
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Painting Aztec Mural 3
The market of Tlatelolco, just north of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital, was vast and well organized, with rows of merchandise arranged in separate sections.
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Goods at Aztec Market 3
People have been enjoying the spicy taste of chile peppers for thousands of years—but until 500 years ago, only in the Americas.
© AMNH/R. Mickens
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