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Edible Monuments: The Art of Food for Festivals
Marcia Reed is chief curator at the Getty Research Institute . She discusses her current exhibition, Edible Monuments: The Art of Food for Festivals , which examines food as spectacle and an expression of power.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readMarcia Reed is chief curator at the Getty Research Institute. She discusses her current exhibition, Edible Monuments: The Art of Food for Festivals, which examines food as spectacle and an expression of power. Culling from rare books, serving manuals, lithographs, decorative items and more, she pieces together the fascinating history of these edible monuments.
The catalogue for the exhibition is available here.
Music: " Stuck in Caroline"
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The full episode
4 of 7Remembering Paul Prudhomme, The Jemima Code & Edible Monuments- 0:00Remembering Chef Paul Prudhomme
- 7:02Let Them Eat Cake
- 17:00The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
- 29:57Edible Monuments: The Art of Food for FestivalsYou’re reading this
- 38:44Dining as Theater: Contemporary Riffs on Past Trends
- 45:05Jonathan Gold Reviews Colonia Publica
- 51:37Market Report