AUTHENTIC NATIVE AMERICAN CUISINE
IN CONJUNCTION WITH TOTEMS TO TURQUOISE
CAFÉ OPENS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30
NW/SW Café on 4 packaged items
© AMNH / Roderick Mickens
The American Museum of Natural History and Restaurant Associates (RA) open the Northwest/Southwest Café on 4, featuring a menu of Native American cuisine, in conjunction with the new exhibition Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest.
With the opening of the Northwest/Southwest Café on 4, the Museum and RA continue the practice of offering authentic food, finely prepared and displayed, as a cultural extension of special exhibitions at the Museum. Visitors may be surprised to discover to what extent Native American foods have been incorporated into our diet: tomatoes, butternut and summer squash, salmon, corn, popcorn, watermelon, and pumpkin are among the many indigenous North American items commonly eaten today. Northwest/Southwest Café on 4 serves indigenous produce, meats, and grains in traditional recipes used by the native peoples of the Northwest and Southwest. Some of the foods on the menu are supplied directly to the Museum from several Native American tribes and aid in their financial development, including parched blue corn snacks from Santa Ana Pueblo's Agricultural Enterprises and beverages from the American Indian Tea and Coffee Company.
Other recent exhibition-related dining ventures created by the Museum and RA with Executive Chef Bruce Barnes have included "Hot Dogs As America"—an array of "dogs" from stadiums and food purveyors from around the country-presented in conjunction with the 2001 exhibition Baseball As America; the re-creation of a typical Vietnamese marketplace food stall, Café Pho, that accompanied Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind & Spirit; the highly popular Chocolate Café, which offered tempting deserts during the 2003 exhibition Chocolate; and the Petra Café during Petra: Lost City of Stone.
The Northwest/Southwest Café on 4 is open:
Mon – Fri: 12:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Sat & Sun: 11:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
October 30, 2004, through July 10, 2005
See complete menu.
