Gain perspective. Get inspired. Make history. THE HENRY FORD MAGAZINE - JUNE-DECEMBER 2015 | THE EVOLUTION OF FAST FOOD | SCIENCE + FOOD | CULINARY PIONEER ALICE WATERS | INSIDE THE HENRY FORD
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THE FOLLIES OF FAST FOOD SCIENCE IN THE KITCHEN SEED SPEED GIRLS
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Contents THIS ISSUE: FOOD
FEATURES
DEPARTMENTS
Our Mission Behind the Scenes Letter from the President Ask + Answer A Word or Two Social Snippets Off the Shelf On the Shelf
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HAPPIER MEALS Fond memories of childhood, family and fun are the secret sauce changing fast food.
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CoURTeSY oF lYFe KiTCHen
DOWN TO A SCIENCE when chemistry and cooking collide
INNOVATION NATION Q&A with Alie Ward Salmon Cannon Seed Speed Girls More on Innovation Nation
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INSIDE THE HENRY FORD Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village Ford Rouge Factory Tour IMAX® Theatre Take It Forward Acquisitions + Collections 2015 Events
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COLLECTING INNOVATION TODAY: STORIES FROM VISIONARIES Alice waters, award-winning restaurateur and leader of America’s slow-food movement, says never compromise, pay attention to the little things and be open to new paths.
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ON THE COVER
Culinary pioneer Alice waters shares her personal food story and what she envisions for our nation’s foodways of the future. AMAnDA MARSAliS
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Do science and creativity define how we fine-dine? Master chefs around the world are using scientific methods inside their kitchens, changing the natural state of foods and enhancing the flavor of what we eat.
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Behind the Scenes Notable Colleagues and Correspondents
WHAT IS your favorite food memory? Our contributors tell us.
liz grossman has been a Chicagobased writer and editor for 15 years. She’s the managing editor of Plate magazine, an awardwinning national trade publication for professional chefs. She’s also the co-founder of the food-themed live literary series Between Bites and has taught food-writing workshops for kids at 826Chi. Her freelance work has appeared in Newsweek, Southwest Spirit, Robb Report, Playboy. com, Veranda, Chicago, Indianapolis Monthly and others. Follow her foodie adventures at instagram. com/elizabites_chi. Down to a Science, Page 28 Favorite food memory: My Grandma Ada’s rhubarb cake.
julie wolfson is a freelance writer living in Los Angeles and covering travel, lifestyle, art, pop culture and cuisine. Most days you will find her out and about in California, or around the world tracking down stories about talented innovators doing amazing things, or walking her rescue mutt Gulliver. Edible Education, Page 42 Favorite food memory: Dinner with my cousin and friends at an izakaya tucked away in a hidden part of Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. I’ll never forget the moment when a giant plate of tuna sashimi cut from all different parts of the tuna arrived at the table. It was visually stunning and some of the most delicious fish I have ever tasted.
john rieber ran programming for cable networks E! and G4. His company, Story Monster TV, makes nonfiction content. He loves great food, interesting books, fascinating travel, outrageous movies and bacon. Check out his most recent rants and posts about burgers, bacon and all things pop culture at johnrieber.com. Happier Meals, Page 20 Favorite food memory: The first time my family parked at Herfy’s drive-in in Seattle and shared a bag of burgers.
marisa seguin is an illustrator from Vancouver, British Columbia, who currently resides in Milwaukee. Her work has appeared in the International New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter and O, The Oprah Magazine and at Sephora. When she is not illustrating, she enjoys baking obnoxiously colored cakes, traveling to faraway places and attempting to finish crossword puzzles. Wrap It Up, Page 27 Favorite food memory: The first time my dad let me help make Sunday morning pancakes, I accidentally quadrupled the amount of salt the recipe called for. We ended up scrapping the entire batch because they tasted like Play-Doh. My dad was a good sport about it, though, since he remembered the first time he used that recipe, he doubled the amount of baking powder.
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KATIE STANDKE is a California-based photographer who focuses on the intersection of people and the environment. Her in-depth picture essays look at food systems, waterfront development and the design of urban public spaces. She completed her graduate work in landscape architecture and photography, and enjoys using this combined perspective to collaborate with the professional design community as well as a broader audience. When not working on a project, she can be found adventuring with her two young explorers or chasing her backyard chicks out of the garden. Edible Education, Page 42 Favorite food memory: Sitting on a picnic blanket with my Grandma Ione shucking millions of peas and eating raspberries from her garden for hours on end every summer.
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Letter from the President Casual Thoughts and Serious Correspondence
This issue of The Henry Ford Magazine is devoted to food,
bill bowen
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amanda marsalis
Clockwise from left: Celebrating America’s foodways is a daily practice at The Henry Ford, whether it’s working the garden at Daggett Farmhouse and making apple butter at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village or interviewing food pioneer and acclaimed chef Alice Waters as part of the Collecting Innovation Today initiative.
a subject that inspires not only passionate opinions but wonderful memories that began for many of us around the dining room table. Ancestors on both sides of my family generated a multitude of delicious recipes that were passed down through the generations. My four sisters and I regularly helped our parents prepare our meals. And our nightly dinners allowed our family to stay closely connected. To this day, we continue to celebrate our roots and heritage through the traditions of food. So the food we love and the meals we cook are so much more than just sustenance. They are a part not only of every individual’s history but America’s history, too. And in the following pages, you’ll learn about some of the ways The Henry Ford is striving to preserve our food traditions and bring them to life. Alice Waters is best known as the owner of the renowned Chez Panisse restaurant. Not only a chef, she’s an author and an American pioneer of a culinary philosophy that maintains cooking should include only the finest and freshest seasonal ingredients that are produced sustainably and locally. We wholeheartedly support that approach in our stores and restaurants at The Henry Ford. We recently had the honor of interviewing Alice for our Collecting Innovation Today initiative (see Page 38 for excerpts). The entire interview will be a permanent part of our Archive of American Innovation. The term “fast food” always seems to provide an array of reactions and opinions. We hope you will find our story on this subject and its ongoing evolution and reinvention revealing and fascinating. Also in this issue, go inside The Henry Ford’s food traditions, a critical part of the visitor experience. For three decades, our Foodways Program at Greenfield Village has quite literally been a movable feast, designed to immerse visitors in all aspects of food for the past 300 years. Finally, read about efforts to secure a vintage, but still operating, computer, one of the first 50 that were made in 1976 by a fledgling company based in a northern California garage. A computer? In a food issue? Well, yes. After all, the name of that company and computer is Apple. Bon appétit!
Patricia E. Mooradian, President
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Ask + Answer Questions and Replies About Today’s Trends, Talk
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ASK: Who’s in charge of what we eat? Answer: We have to choose what’s for dinner. A savory home-cooked meal made from fresh, organic ingredients purchased at a local farmers market? A frozen dinner popped into the microwave? Greasy fast food picked up at the drive-thru window and eaten on the run? Every day, we are surrounded by countless food choices that range from back-to-basics fresh, whole foods to calorie- and preservative-laden convenience meals and snacks. Food in America is abundant and readily available 24/7. And, unfortunately, much of it is unhealthy. Ironically, America’s “food problem” is a result of many decades of increasing success at growing, preserving, marketing and distributing food and food products. It is
also the result of our food-related values: Fast. Convenient. Large portions. Concern for our unhealthy eating habits is growing exponentially. A steady diet of only fresh salads — or fried fast food? There is a happy medium between these disparate choices. We can be knowledgeable about the benefits and risks of what we choose to eat. Research continually offers new knowledge on the science of nutrition. Innovative farmers — often inspired by agricultural methods of the past — seek new, sustainable ways to provide fresh, healthy foods. Being surrounded by a plentiful supply of convenient, calorie-laden foods is not destiny. We, individually and as a nation, can make healthier decisions that strike a better balance between the “good” and “bad” of what we eat.
Jeanine Head Miller is curator of domestic life at The Henry Ford.
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A Word or Two Defining People, Places, Pastimes
LATE TO THE TABLE Knives and spoons have been in our dining repertoire for thousands of years. While the fork on our tables came much, much later in human history, it’s certainly the utensil with the most impressive variety in terms of shape, size, purpose and number of tines. A running list of our forks of all sorts: OYSTER LOBSTER SALAD TERRAPIN BERRY
LETTUCE SARDINE PICKLE FISH PASTRY
ICE CREAM TABLE DESSERT DELI
Molecular
Palate
(MUH-LEK-YUH-LER) ADJ.
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Don’t think groups of teeny-tiny atoms under a microscope. Instead, imagine groups of chefs moonlighting as scientists experimenting with food and physics. Creating dishes with explosive flavors.
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When food is considered art, our palates are like palettes. The place where we mix tastes and textures to appreciate culinary masterpieces.
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Balance
(BAL-UH-NS) N. For every cookie consumed, should we crunch on three carrots? When it comes to a proper diet, it’s never good to tip the scale too far in one direction.
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Gastronomic (GAS-TRUH-NOM-IK) ADJ.
Archetype (AHR-KI-TAHYPE) N.
The galaxy has Darth Vader. Metropolis has Lex Luthor. Our waistlines have fast food. But, does the food world’s resident bad boy deserve such a bad rap?
Not out of this world as in what’s in space, but used to describe the art and science of cooking good food that tastes out of this world.
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Scratch (SKRACH) ADJ.
Envisioning mom, the Bactine and a BandAid over your boo-boo? Instead, see today’s kids in the kitchen making something start to finish with nothing packaged or processed.
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Social Snippets Online Chatter and Curatorial Matters
Food ’n’ Fodder Every day, you can find online banter at thehenryford.org about how The Henry Ford incorporates food and the history of its harvest, preparation and preservation into the guest experience. Watch culinary demos, comment on our favorite posted recipes from the 1700s to the present day and head to THF OnLiving for a sneak peek at event menus, food-related artifacts and more.
ON THE MENU The Henry Ford has three centuries’ worth of cookware, cutlery, cookbooks and containers.
ONLINE To discover more food-centric artifacts, browse our online collections at collections.thehenryford.orgc
You can always ask The Henry Ford a question, day or night, online. We’re @TheHenryFord on all social platforms.
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“Did you know Henry Ford popularized the charcoal briquette? Food of Yore — Henry Ford: The Father of Easy Grilling.” PORK AND APPLE PIE (as served at Eagle Tavern)
INGREDIENTS 3 slices bacon, diced 1 cup carrots, large dice 1 cup onions, large dice 1 cup celery, large dice 4 pounds pork, diced 1 inch by 1 inch Kosher salt, to taste Ground white pepper, to taste 3 tablespoons butter 6 tablespoons flour 2 cups apple cider 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, chopped 1 quart pork or chicken stock 3 apples peeled, cored and cut into wedges 9-inch pie shell, prebaked
Velvet Ice Cream Tub, 1946-50; Mote Spoon, 1730-50.
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METHOD Start with a cool pan. Add bacon and place over medium heat. Cook until the bacon is crisp. Take out of pan and reserve bacon. Add the carrots, onions and celery. Cook until the vegetables are tender and remove from pan and drain off oil. Season the pork with salt and pepper and add the butter to pan. Cook until the pork is brown. Add flour and cook while stirring for about 2 minutes. Add cider, thyme and stock. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for about 30 minutes. Add apples, simmer 5 more minutes or until the pork becomes tender and the broth has thickened. Season with salt and pepper.
“We use Michigangrown apples, cider and locally raised natural pork in our pork pie and recommend anyone who cooks this recipe to do the same for best results.” — Mike Trombley, executive chef, The Henry Ford
Serve in a deep bowl with crumbled pie shell on top. Serves 6.
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Take a look inside The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation TV series. A weekly TV show that airs Saturday mornings on CBS presents inspiring stories that showcase present-day change makers and the possibilities for future progress. Each episode of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation shares dramatic accounts of the world’s greatest inventions — and the perseverance, passion and price required to bring them to life.
INNOVATION NATION receIVeS emmY® The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognized The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation with an Emmy® for Outstanding Special Class Series at the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards. The show was also nominated for Outstanding Writing Special Class and Outstanding Single Camera Editing. “The Henry Ford is extremely proud to be recognized by the industry’s leading authorities on quality programming,” said Patricia Mooradian, president of The Henry Ford.
Q&A with Alie Ward 12 Salmon Cannon 13 Seed Speed Girls 14 More on Innovation Nation 16 KRISTINA SIKORA / KMS PHOTOGRAPHY
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Q&A with correspondent Alie Ward
The Henry Ford recently spent a little time with Alie Ward, correspondent extraordinaire on The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation TV series. With months of filming now on her resume, we asked her to share some of her favorite innovative moments and what she loves most about The Henry Ford. THF Magazine How did you become a part of the Innovation Nation team? Ward I was approached by executive producer Bryan Curb, who was familiar with my on-camera work and knew that I loved science. I was immediately thrilled about the prospect of being involved. After waiting a few very long weeks (read: excited, anxious) for contracts to be finalized, I got the call that they officially wanted me as a correspondent. When I hung up the phone, I squealed like a lunatic. THF Magazine Were you familiar with The Henry Ford prior to getting this assignment? Ward I was. My sister lived in Dearborn for 10 years, and I’d always wanted to visit. But, on the day our trip was planned, there was a huge freak storm. So I didn’t get to go and regretted it.
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THF Magazine Now that you have visited The Henry Ford, what impresses you the most? Ward The Henry Ford has such a wonderful legacy of preserving and celebrating American history, culture and innovation. When I had a half-day tour of the museum and village, as well as a mind-blowing behind-the-scenes look at artifacts that aren’t on display, I loved seeing the slice-of-life American history that was laid out. I am also a rabid automotive enthusiast, so I adore the vehicle collection. THF Magazine You’ve got a number of Innovation Nation interviews under your belt. Any particular conversation, innovator that really impressed you? Ward Sara Volz (aka Algae Girl, Page 16), my first interview. She is just the brightest, most focused, passionate, articulate scientist I’ve ever met — and still in her teens. I admire her dedication, passion and commitment to science and biochemistry, and I can’t wait to see what she does with her studies at MIT,
DID YOU KNOW? / Alie Ward is a volunteer at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
financed in part with a $100,000 grant awarded to her for her research on algae as a biofuel. On a personal note: About six years ago, I had a secret list of things I really wanted to do in my life. One was to work on a TV show “that deals with science and learning and bugs and algae and travel and maybe kids.” For me to travel to Boston and interview a teenager ABOUT algae (so random) for my first Innovation shoot was just such a crazy coincidence/dream come true for me. THF Magazine Do you see common personality traits, characteristics, skills among the inventors/ innovators you have interviewed? Ward Persistence is absolutely essential to be successful as an innovator. Because you will fail. Many, many times. Failure is a huge part of success, and every single innovator we meet reiterates that. And persistence is usually fueled by a deep curiosity and commitment to the process, science or goal. These innovators eat, sleep and breathe their projects.
“The greatest lessons I’ve learned from interviewing innovators: 1) Chase what you love. 2) Stay curious and open to change. 3) Don’t give up when it gets hard.” — Alie Ward
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SALMON CANNON As Vince Bryan watched apple pickers in his family’s orchard take many steps to move fruit from the tree to groundbound collection points, he pondered. Must be an easier way for all those apples to go the distance without damage. Find out how the Bryan family’s need to get fruit from A to B eventually led to the creation of the Whooshh™ Fish Transport System, aka salmon cannon, which is helping spawning salmon make the uphill journey around dams and other man-made waterway obstructions. ●
PROBLEM Man-made barriers stop salmon from making it upstream to spawn.
SOLUTION Give the fish a better shot at getting to the other side.
INVENTOR Vince Bryan whooshh.comc
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PNEUMATIC SYSTEMS ARE EITHER PRESSURIZED OR VACUUMS. VACUUM SYSTEMS PULL OBJECTS TOWARD IT, WHILE PRESSURIZED SYSTEMS PUSH OBJECTS AWAY. Other common pneumatic systems in our everyday include car tires and brakes, bouncy houses, a jackhammer, exercise equipment and a bike tire pump.
A salmon enters the cannon tube, which uses a generator-powered pressure differential to suck up the fish and pull it through the flexible conduit that creates a seal around it.
The fish is then sent through the tube at up to 22 mph. As the fish reaches the end of the tube, it slows with the help of friction, gravity and increased water.
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The fish is then released at the other side, reaching heights of up to 30 feet. It typically takes just 5-10 seconds before fish hit the water.
OTHER SALMONRELATED INVENTIONS AND INSPIRATIONS Check out AquaBounty Technologies’ idea about splicing in a gene from Chinook salmon with DNA from an eellike creature called an ocean pout. AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon can grow twice as fast aquabounty.comc Read Michael Wigan’s book, The Salmon: The Extraordinary Story of the King of Fishc Investigate the university of connecticut and how scientists invented a long-lasting Led light bulb using salmon dnAc
FISH IN CANNON FOR 4-6 SECONDS
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“Kind of like a salmon Slip’n Slide.” — correspondent Adam Yamaguchi
DID YOU KNOW? / Salmon typically live in the ocean but are born and spawn in freshwater rivers and streams. DID YOU KNOW? / Fish ladders are the most common solution to help fish swim upstream and get around man-made dams.
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SEED SPEED GIRLS When crops are dormant — before seeds germinate in the soil — adverse weather conditions can cause rot and plant loss. One day in geography class, 14-year-olds Ciara Judge, Sophie Healy-Thow and Emer Hickey were learning about the global food crisis and the Horn of Africa. Find out how that day’s lesson and a little backyard gardening inspired three Dublin girls to create a lab in a spare bedroom, study an obscure strain of bacteria called Rhizobium and map out a way to speed up seed germination and growth, decrease plant losses and create higher crop yields. ●
OTHER PROJECTS AND RELATED INVENTIONS: Learn more about the BT Young Scientist national competition btyoungscientist.iec Check out the BroGro System brogrosystems.comc Keeping fruits and veggies fresh for up to 10 weeks pimiagro.comc Read the story of FreshPaper fenugreen.comc
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PROBLEM Three-quarters of the world’s population has access to just 20 percent of available food.
They found that the bacteria increased germination rates by
INVENTORS Ciara Judge Sophie Healy-Thow Emer Hickey
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Rhizobium, naturally occurring, nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in the soil and form a relationship with legume plants such as beans and peas and help them grow.
The Seed Speed Girls A took the bacteria and used a process called nitrogen fixation to apply the bacteria to the seeds of grains such as oat, wheat and barley.
SOLUTION Use naturally occurring bacteria to increase crop yields and help conquer the global food crisis.
NITROGEN FIXATION The process of combining atmospheric nitrogen with other elements to form useful compounds. In nature, nitrogen is fixed by lightning or micro-organisms.
ATMOSPHERIC FIXATION
ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN
ANIMALS EAT PLANTS
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DENITRIFICATION PLANT AND ANIMAL WASTES
Nitrogenfixing bacteria live in root nodules
AMMONIA NITRITES NITRATES
A nitrate becomes molecular nitrogen
aRhizobium bacteria nitrogen©NIGEL CATTLIN,/VISUALS UNLIMITED/CORBIS
fixing root nodules on broad or field bean (Vicia faba).
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INNOVATION NATION
+More on Innovation nation PrObLem:
Oil is a nonrenewable resource.
SOLuTIOn: Create a sustainable, renewable fuel source from oil-producing algae.
ALGAe GIrL
Instead of old Doritos and dirty socks breeding bacteria under the bed, teenager Sara Volz was breeding algae in beakers below her mattress. She wanted to see if she could more efficiently harness its oil-producing powers to create a sustainable, renewable biofuel source. Slimy green goo turns to shiny gold stars. WATcH thehenryford.org/ innovationnation/ episode4.aspc
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PrObLem:
Stains that stay.
SOLuTIOn:
A self-cleaning shirt.
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Spill ketchup on your favorite white T. Splash grease on your best silk shirt. What if your closet was full of clothes with an invisible armor of sorts? Made from a material manipulated at the molecular level. Aamir Patel is looking at the nano structures of fibers to create a fabric immune to big spills and stubborn stains. Not even soy sauce or sticky syrup sticks to or stains the Silic Shirt. silicshirts.comc
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COURTESY OF THALMIC LABS
PrObLem: The gap between humans and technology. SOLuTIOn:
Improve the connection between our real and digital worlds.
ArmbAnd mOuSe
The mouse helps us tell our computer what we want it to do. A right click here, a left click there. Might be time for the mouse to move over. Myo is an armband at your elbow that lets you control your tech with your hands, touch-free. thalmic.comc
You can catch The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation with Mo Rocca on Saturday mornings during CBS Network’s block of educational programming called CBS Dream Team ... It’s Epic. Check your local listings.
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WATcH thehenryford.org/ innovationnation/ episode9.aspc
From The Henry Ford’s Archive of American Innovation Snippets of the artifacts and assets featured on The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation EPISODE 7
+The H.j. Heinz House Chief Curator Marc Greuther takes show host Mo Rocca inside the H.J. Heinz House to share the commodore of condiments’ packaging strategy and the secret behind getting the ketchup out of his bottle. WATCH thehenryford.org/innovationnation/episode7.aspc EPISODE 9
+Soybean experimental Lab Soy ice cream, soy butter and a soy automobile. Henry Ford believed the soybean was the miracle crop with limitless edible and industrial possibilities. Curator of Transportation Matt Anderson takes you inside Ford’s Soybean Experimental Lab. WATCH thehenryford.org/innovationnation/episode9.aspc
KMS PHOTOGRAPHY
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+The noah Webster House Words and the man who helped catalog their definitions are the topic of conversation between Mo Rocca and Jeanine Head Miller, curator of domestic life, in the Noah Webster House in Greenfield Village. WATCH thehenryford.org/innovationnation/episode11.aspc EPISODE 12
+Thomas Edison’s menlo Park Lab Host Mo Rocca records a tune on an Edison cylinder phonograph and learns about the difference between invention and innovation with Chief Curator Marc Greuther in Edison’s Menlo Park Lab in Greenfield Village. WATCH thehenryford.org/innovationnation/episode12.aspc
KMS PHOTOGRAPHY
EPISODE 13
+Return of the Wrinkled Sheep The Henry Ford’s Brian James Egen, executive producer, and Ryan Spencer, manager of Firestone Farm, talk about the return of the rare and wrinkled Merino sheep of Greenfield Village. WATCH thehenryford.org/innovationnation/episode13.aspc KMS PHOTOGRAPHY
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Fond memories of childhood, family and fun are the secret sauce changing fast food By John Rieber
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Reinventing the Meal Fast food’s classic calling card — a burger, fries and a milk shake — is evolving in a gourmet way at celebrated chef Michael Symon’s B Spot Burgers. His signature burger, the Lola, comes complete with a sunny-side egg atop, the fries have a sophisticated touch of rosemary and the shake is a high-end culinary blend of vanilla bean, apple pie and bacon.
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ast food. It evokes a multitude of images and opinions. It’s considered by many to be the lowest form of sustenance. But, for some, fast food is so much more than something we eat. “fast food brings people back to the raw element of childhood and being happy,” said Mike Mercer, general manager of the seattle-based Lunchbox Laboratory, a nationally known eatery serving fast food’s symbolic hamburger with a higher-end culinary twist. Our happiness set aside for a moment, it’s no secret that fast food has sparked a heated national debate in recent years about the health and well-being of americans. But if you step ahead of this well-publicized discussion, you’ll discover a fascinating, not-so-underground revolution taking shape around our nation’s bad-boy food archetype — one that is fronted by some of the most creative chefs in the gastronomic world today. calling it fast food, noted one of these chefs, Katsuji tanabe, is, in fact, getting it all wrong nowadays. “We’re very fast cooks creating great food.”
Food becomes Fast When exactly did food become “fast”? John a. Jakle, co-author of Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age, said our love affair with fast food began when america’s Industrial revolution took hold. “fast food appealed particularly to factory workers in the ‘30s — inexpensive food sold to workers outside the factory gates.”
While some perceived the quality of this food to be less than subpar, the real truth was that eating away from home was alien to most americans. “you just didn’t eat out ... home was where you ate,” Jakle said. then america was introduced to the open road. In the 1920s, cyrus avery, highway commissioner of tulsa, Oklahoma, led an effort to link chicago and Los angeles through his hometown of tulsa. route 66 eventually stretched for 2,448 miles by the late ‘30s, and by the early ‘40s, the entire road was paved. “route 66 speaks to wide open spaces and freedom,” Jakle said. “the automobile not only stood for liberation but convenience and speed, and that’s where the automobile reinforced the highway experience.” and once people got out on the expanding crisscross of america’s highways in their cars, they, of course, needed services along the way. fast, convenient foods weren’t just necessary for the factory workers outside the gate anymore, but a must for the increasing number of motorists seeking freedom and on-the-go experiences from the road. all conditions paving the way for fast food, a phenomenon uniquely american.
DiD YOU KnOW? / Visionary American botanist and horticulturist Luther Burbank is the creator of the Russet Burbank, still one of the most popular potato types used at fastfood chains for making french fries. See Burbank’s Massachusetts birth home and California garden office inside The Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village. 22
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DiD YOU KnOW? / According to research company The NPD Group, Americans ate 9 billion hamburgers in 2014.
Food on the Move
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A Food Industry Unfolds Clockwise from left: A pristine environment and uniform method of making burgers brought great success to White Castle. McDonald’s franchise strategy helped solidify fast food’s place in America’s food chain. People like eating in their cars. The drive-in was the precursor to the fast-food restaurant’s drive-thru.
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The Henry Ford acquired the 1924 Fruit Growers Express refrigerator car in 1987. When the car was in operation, to keep it and its contents cool, 45-55 pounds of ice melted each hour. Needless to say, icing stations were located at regular intervals along the rail routes.
Florida oranges on grocery store shelves in Minnesota. Fresh blueberries from Chile at fruit markets in New England — in the middle of winter. Beef processed and packaged in Texas purchased and consumed by families in the Carolinas. Whether we realize it or not, our relationship with food is directly dependent on the transportation industry. And it has been for nearly 200 years. “As the U.S. became more urbanized, the demand for fresh food shipped over long distances increased,” said Matt Anderson, curator of transportation at The Henry Ford. Before the railroad boom and introduction of the refrigerator car in the 1840s, such variety of eats was unfathomable. People ate what was grown in their immediate area. Farming was a local endeavor. “Refrigerated cars revolutionized the agriculture industry,” said Anderson. A growing desire to move processed and packaged beef hundreds of miles, rather than a whole herd of living cattle, sparked the larger movement to cool things down inside the railcars. The Henry Ford has a refrigerator car, built in 1924 for Fruit Growers Express, in its collection. Cooling was provided by ice, loaded through roof hatches into large compartments at each end of the car. Fans, driven by the car’s axles, helped to circulate the cool air. “I consider our Fruit Growers Express car to be the cornerstone of our food transportation collection,” said Anderson. “Refrigerator cars like this changed the American diet, permitting fresh produce and meat to be shipped anywhere in the U.S.” And while we’re talking about moving fruit and keeping it fresh, ponder this: When McDonald’s introduced sliced apples to its menu in 2011, it quickly became the largest purchaser of apple slices at 60 billion pounds per year. Give some thought to who grows all those apples and how they get where they need to go.
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A Symbolic Sandwich One of the first fast-food chains was White Castle. Founded by Bill Ingram in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, White Castle is considered by many to be the birth company of the fast-food industry. What’s most interesting about White Castle? It didn’t invent its signature item, the hamburger/slider. What it did do: Introduce Americans to a quality burger at a cheap price (5 cents) manufactured in a uniform fashion — you could always count on getting the same delicious slider every time (a square 100-percent beef patty with onions and a pickle). And you could see it being made in a clean, friendly environment. People took to White Castle in droves. Ingram’s sly marketing and manufacturing of the burger helped change America’s overall perception of the sandwich as a meal of worth rather than a low-grade option suitable only for food carts and carnivals. By 1941, White Castle had sold more than 50 million sliders and had a slew of copycats chasing its audience, fueling fast food as its own industry. While White Castle was reveling in millions of sliders sold, Mac and Dick McDonald opened McDonald’s Bar-BQue in San Bernardino, California, in 1940. Eight years into it, the brothers shortened the name to McDonald’s and shifted their focus to hamburgers, their best-selling menu item at the time. Similar to White Castle’s Ingram, the McDonalds were aces at applying the principles of mass production to making burgers, fries and milk shakes. Their early success caught the eye of visionary businessman Ray Kroc, who was selling the brothers large quantities of multimixers. Kroc was so impressed by the singular focus and efficiency of McDonald’s, he ended up buying out the brothers in 1955. A massive expansion and franchise plan soon followed. Kroc’s genius: He made each franchisee and supplier feel that they were in business for themselves,
but not by themselves. And although every McDonald’s had a cookie-cutter appearance, product and process, he encouraged and rewarded entrepreneurialism and creativity, too. Sandwiches such as the Big Mac and Egg McMuffin, for example, weren’t corporate kitchen creations but the brainchildren of individual franchises. By 1965, more than 700 McDonald’s were scattered across the country, helping further solidify fast food’s place in America’s food chain. And over the next few decades, fast-food businesses exploded. By the early 1980s, quick-service restaurants selling burgers, tacos, pizza, fried chicken and everything fast and handheld in between constituted some 40 percent of the nation’s eat-out destinations. And people — who 30 years ago rarely considered dining out an option — were doing it 3.7 times per week.
Here to Stay Whether we like it or not, the business of fast food is here to stay. But it is evolving. Some are of the mindset that fast food will continue to follow the trail of Steve Ells, the founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill, and the fastcasual craze. Affordable food that’s packaged in transparent environments and served quickly, but with an added perception of quality and freshness. Others are trying to redefine what constitutes fast food. For example, at Lyfe Kitchen, a chain ironically started by former McDonald’s executives, the idea is to serve sustainable gourmet meals with the efficiency and economy of a national fast-food chain. Convenient, affordable food that’s also really good for you. In speaking with restaurant chefs, managers and owners, it’s clear that everyone wants to bring their own distinctive and creative takes to this genre of food without a great culinary history. Why? It seems many of them have a deep-rooted sentimentality for it.
Sliders Around the World
Sliders are best described as mini-burgers, smaller versions of a hamburger that are easy to make, fun to share and can take on a variety of worldly flavors thanks to creative toppings.
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The Italian
Once cooked, top your burger with provolone cheese and add a touch of marinara sauce.
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good food fast New chains such as Lyfe Kitchen are changing the face of fast food, serving up healthier options, including its Lyfe Waters (top) and grilled chicken and avocado sandwich, with similar efficiency and affordability.
DID YOU KNOW? / Say thanks to Thomas Jefferson every time you upgrade your sandwich to a meal. In 1802, Jefferson had “potatoes served in the French manner” at the White House and subsequently introduced french fries to America.
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Top your cooked burger with olive tapenade and manchego cheese. The tapenade is easy to find premade in the condiments aisle.
Top your cooked burger with wasabi mayonnaise and a slice of fresh avocado.
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Stuff your burger before cooking with blue cheese, then top with fresh arugula and grilled onions.
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Top your cooked burger with bacon and cheddar cheese, then add mustard, mayo, sliced onion, pickle and tomato.
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Take your All-American slider and add a slice of beet between the cooked burger and the bun.
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Simpler Times Lunchbox Laboratory is mixing a sense of nostalgia with culinary prowess to reinvent fast food’s bad-boy image. The restaurant’s signature burgers and sides, for example, are blends of premium ingredients. The restaurant’s atmosphere is a celebration of fast food’s indelible mark on a generation’s childhood years.
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In Tribute Katsuji Tanabe prepares his Makosher burger at his celebrated restaurant Mexikosher in LA. The sandwich is his homage to McDonald’s Big Mac and fond family memories of fast food.
Celebrated next-generation chef Tanabe has appeared on Bravo’s Top Chef Boston and Food Network’s Chopped. He is the mastermind behind LA’s Mexikosher, America’s only kosher Mexican restaurant, which serves a wide variety of what is considered fast food — tacos, burritos, salsa, guacamole and burgers. All items, however, are made in the style of an upscale restaurant, with fresh ingredients, under Kehilla Kosher supervision. “It’s fast food,” said Tanabe, “but the food takes 17 hours to cook, slow-braised and simmered in intricate homemade sauces.” Tanabe is channeling his fondness for fast food by giving it a “fine dining” upgrade, a technique indicative of many high-end chefs today. He has even created his own homage to McDonald’s Big Mac, partly because it’s iconic to his generation, he said, but also because it brings back fond memories of his family. “When I was six, our family had McDonald’s Monday,” he remembered. “It was a sense of tradition, and it’s why we all love fast food. It’s quick, it’s a family tradition and it gives you comfort.” Like Tanabe, Lunchbox Laboratory offers its own nod to the nostalgic elements of fast food with refined culinary twists. The eatery’s signature sandwich is a hamburger called The Dork. A patty made fresh and in-house with a blend of duck and pork, topped with Monterey Jack cheese, Lunch26
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box’s onions and garlic mayonnaise. As general manager Mercer explained: “It goes back to that idea of being a child, loving fast food and being nostalgic. There’s a sense of contentment, remembering great things from the past, a reminder of a simpler time.” Michael Symon, co-host of ABC’s daily show The Chew and one of the country’s most accomplished chefs, also has strong feelings about fast food and the burger in particular. He has even established his own national chain called B Spot Burgers, a fastcasual ode to the hamburger. “Mike’s view of fast food is this: America went ‘on the go,’ and we don’t have time to sit around waiting for the meat loaf in the oven,” said Frank Ritz, who has worked with Symon for nearly 20 years and is B Spot Burgers’ regional general manager. And Symon’s love of the hamburger is no secret, Ritz added. “He may have made his livelihood in fine dining, but there wasn’t a week that went by when he and his wife wouldn’t get in the car and search out the best burgers they could find.” Whether driven by fond childhood memories or a secret love of fast food’s iconic sandwich, these culinary innovators share an ongoing desire to reimagine and reinvent fast food. As once said to Jerry Seinfeld on the TV series Seinfeld: “Not fast food, Jerry, good food served quickly!” l
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“When I was six, our family had McDonald’s Monday. It was a sense of tradition, and it’s why we all love fast food. It’s quick, it’s a family tradition and it gives you comfort.” — Chef Katsuji Tanabe
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Paper, plastic, wrapped or boxed. When it comes to what we eat, we quickly discard the packaging surrounding it without a care. Take a closer look at the containers and contraptions created to help protect and serve our food and drink. illustrations by marisa seguin
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THE STRAW Ohioan Marvin C. Stone doesn’t like the grassy taste those rye straws give his mint juleps. He winds a strip of paper around a pencil and adds a little glue.
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THE HAT Hamburger chain White Castle establishes subsidiary Paperlynen Co. to produce its paper packaging, covers for workers’ heads included.
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The carryout bag, the french fry bag. Fast-food restaurant’s distinctive packaging takes over, developed for customer convenience and brand recognition.
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THE BOX McDonald’s discontinues using its signature polystyrene clamshell boxes in response to negative publicity.
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THE SLEEVE Portland, Oregon, resident Jay Sorensen spills hot coffee on himself and has an ephipany. The Java Jacket insulated cardboard sleeve slides over a paper coffee cup.
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THE LID Solo’s Traveler hot-drink lid replaces the tear-thetriangle variety. Domed to help cool your beverage before you sip.
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THE STICK Starbucks introduces its new combination stir stick-coffee splash preventer after a customer vote on Starbucks’ new social-networking site, mystarbucksidea.com.
THE MEAL Burger Chef offers a specially designed cardboard carrying tray to hold a child-size burger, drink and fries. The Funmeal concept sets the course for future kid’s meal packaging and promotions at fast-food chains.
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THE WRAPPER Don’t deny the potential environmental benefits of packaging you can eat. In 2012, Brazilian fast-food chain Bob’s launched a rice-based edible hamburger wrapper.
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THE BUCKET Kentucky Fried Chicken introduces its signature bucket meal — 14 pieces of chicken, five bread rolls and a pint of gravy, sold in a large cardboard bucket.
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THE TRAY The earliest paperboard carryout trays were for Chinese takeout and pizza. The Wagner Folding Box Corp. comes up with a popular foldout, called the “carry-out auto-tray.”
the gRanDFatheR OF the MODeRn FOOD tRUCK In the 1980s, diner expert Richard Gutman was visiting The Henry Ford and noticed the Owl Night Lunch Wagon in Greenfield Village. The horse-drawn wagon, which dates back to the 1890s, was the mobile fast-food truck of its time, selling quick meals to nighttime workers in Detroit, including a young Henry Ford. When Gutman visited Greenfield Village, the wagon was still serving customers, acting as a concession stand. “One day we got a letter from Gutman, who lived in New England, saying, ‘you know, you have the last known lunch wagon in existence, and you could give it a lot more historical integrity, and I could help you with that,” said Donna Braden, curator of public life at The Henry Ford. The Henry Ford took Gutman up on his offer and hired him. Today, the Owl Night features beautiful stained-glass windows and decorative painting indicative of the era. And it’s still being used in its original capacity, dishing out simple snacks and refreshments to Greenfield Village guests.
DiD YOU KnOW? / The Henry Ford has a collection of nearly 2,000 kid’s meal items, donated by collector Jeff Escue of Bloomingdale, Illinois, in the late 1990s.
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A Culinary Chemist Chicago chef Richie Farina doesn’t conform to tradition in his kitchen, using unlikely techniques and tools such as a freeze dryer, rotary evaporator and a four-quart centrifuge (typically used to separate blood) to create his expressive dishes. bill bowen
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It has been almost 10 years since I was lucky enough to step foot inside Alinea, Grant Achatz’s awardwinning temple of avantgarde eating in Chicago. I still think about the works of art unveiled during that 27-course, fivehour meal. A pristine white pillow filled with lavender vapor that slowly seeped from hidden pinpricks once a plate of tofu, crispy prosciutto, peas and soy-milk foam was laid on top. Five perfect hearts of palm, their cores replaced with colorful dots of flavor (fava beans and lemon zest or plum and Niçoise olives) sitting on tiny ceramic pedestals like bite-sized soldiers. And a strip of dehydrated applewood-smoked bacon drizzled with butterscotch, freeze-dried apple leather ribbons and thyme (an homage to when Achatz mixed his pancakes with his bacon as a kid growing up in Michigan) hanging from a thin wire affixed to an upside-down bow. While it all looked too delicate to eat, it took one bite to discover these vaporized, freeze-dried and dehydrated delicacies were not only beautiful but delicious. And nearly a decade later, their memories still linger on my taste buds. With numerous accolades, Alinea has more than left its mark on the world of molecular gastronomy. Achatz was playing with vapors and foams in the early 2000s at Evanston, Illinois’ Trio, and in 2003, an adventurous chef named Wylie Dufresne started serving pickled beef tongue with fried mayonnaise at New York City’s wd-50. Even as far back as 1995, Heston Blumenthal opened The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, 30
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England, with a menu of simple French bistro fare that eventually morphed into molecular mind-benders like nitrogenscrambled egg and bacon ice cream. But it was chef Ferran Adrià, perhaps the godfather of revolutionary avantgarde cooking, who first ascended food to the abstract when he took over the kitchen of a restaurant called elBulli in Roses, Spain, in 1984 (see Page 32). But even though chefs like Achatz, Adrià and Blumenthal are known for their modern molecular cooking styles, science and cooking have always been synonymous: “The convergence of food and science might seem new, but in fact food and science have always been closely aligned,” write David Joachim and Andrew Schloss in their book The Science of Good Food. The encyclopedia covers everything from acids and colloids to emulsification and oxidation, essentially Cooking 101. And while some chefs simply master the basics, others take what they learn and go beyond to continually challenge and inspire people’s perception of food.
It’s Just Food “There’s a lot of mystique around these people who create these amazing dishes,” said Pia Sorensen, an instructor at Harvard University. She’s referring to chefs such as Dominique Crenn of Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, Mark Ladner of Del Posto in New York City and Joan Roca of El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, who last fall
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Presentation Perfect Chicago restaurant Alinea is known for the adventurous presentation of its dishes as well as their tastes. Clockwise from left: edible helium balloons with a dehydrated apple string, plating up and finishing touches, and Corn, a dessert of corn, white chocolate, honey and mango.
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all teamed up with Harvard researchers, professors, chemists, physicists and mathematicians for the school’s long-running Harvard College General education course Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter. besides world-famous chefs, authors like Harold McGee and nathan Myhrvold (both known for their writing on science and food) have become regular guest lecturers, appearing alongside everyone from master chocolatiers to nASA project scientists. “Pretty much every week has a theme,” explained Sorensen of the students’ curriculum. “it will be elasticity, how heat diffuses into food or how hydrogen ions in lemon juice diffuse into ceviche when you cook it.” The course was so popular among students, a Science and Cooking series was offered to the public in 2010. “The idea was the chefs are here, we might as well have these public lectures,” said Sorensen, who recalls when Adrià (also a regular presenter) led the very first one. “They had to change the lecture hall to the largest on campus and involve police detail because people were lining up several hours ahead,” she said. The program was offered for credit through the Harvard extension School as well as online this spring. “one thing that strikes me again and again is the similarity between the way science and cooking are done, the trial and error that goes into designing experiments, versus a new dish,” said Sorensen. “Scientists spend a lot of time failing at their experiments, and chefs create things that are difficult and put pressure on themselves to reinvent their menu every year. They go through similar things.”
DiD you KnoW? / in 2014, Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity was on exhibit at the drawing center in new york. it included drawings of dishes and utensils invented by adrià, detailed records of kitchen experiments and 3-d plasticine food models that were used not only to show how food should be plated but how to create food molds for specific proportions in each dish.
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last fall’s program included Crenn, who made carrot jerky to demonstrate the concept of dehydration. And new York City’s Momofuku Milk bar chef/founder Christina Tosi talked about emulsions and foams and handed out freshly baked cookies in the process. “The aim is to learn the physics, math and chemistry,” said Sorensen. “it’s a way to draw them in and make them interested.” when Daniel Humm of eleven Madison Park in new York City led last fall’s lecture, “where’s the Acid?” he grew just as interested in the subject as the students. “once we began to organize our thoughts and talk about our food, we began to see how a full-on presentation could be assembled,” said Humm, who admits he was anxious to be out of his kitchen comfort zone but quickly got used to being onstage in front of hundreds of students. “even the most simple task in the kitchen — like searing a piece of meat, applying acid to fish, using olive oil to emulsify a vinaigrette — all of these actions utilize science and always will,” he said. while the chef thinks his food is more about simplicity than science, he admitted, “There’s science in everything we do.” The experience even inspired him to buy an instrument to measure the pH of the famous duck sauce on the restaurant’s long-tenured roasted duck dish. “we wanted to challenge ourselves a little and have a little fun, but also see if there was a difference between how a cook prepared the sauce and how a sous chef prepared it,” said Humm. The experiment concluded that pH measurements varied by as much as 0.3, depending on the chef.
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it’s no wonder Ferran adrià needs crowd control when he appears at harvard, or anywhere else for that matter, to speak. since 1987 (when he took over the kitchen of elBulli in roses, spain, at age 25 with christian lutaud), his culinary waves have rippled throughout the world. his first dishes were inspired by French and nouvelle cuisine, and by 1990, he was experimenting with avant-garde and molecular dishes. By that time, the restaurant was also closed for half the year (primarily during winter and early spring) to allow the chefs to work on their creative processes and experiment with new dishes, be it with foams, gels, spherification, liquid nitrogen and more. By the early 2000s, adrià was gracing the covers of The New York Times Magazine and Le Monde, and the chef was also listed among TIME’s 100 most influential People. the accolades piled up, including the top spot on the s. Pellegrino list of World’s 50 Best restaurants for five years. the chef announced the closing of his famed restaurant in 2011. But it seems like adrià is only getting started with a number of major projects, all under the umbrella of the elBulli Foundation, a creative think tank and food laboratory. the actual restaurant has morphed into elbulli dna, a research center and test kitchen where a massive culinary history encyclopedia called BulliPedia is being built for chefs to access around the world. elBulli 1846 (named for the number of dishes the restaurant created over the years) will be a museum near the restaurant that’s devoted to history and the creative culinary process. in 2017, 6WFood is projected to open (possibly in Barcelona) as a 7,000-square-foot museum devoted to art, cooking, science and more, and after that, only adrià knows. onLine For info, updates and virtual tours, visit elbullifoundation.orgc FeRRAn ADRiÀ bY MARibel RUÍZ De eRenCHUn; SeeDS bY FRAnCeSC GUillAMeT
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“There are advanced techniques that can be used in the kitchen, some more scientific than others, but i believe science will continue to make chefs better. but it can’t replace the skill, technique and experience of a seasoned chef,” said Humm. Richie Farina, who left this spring as executive chef of Moto, would agree. “Cooks have always been doing science. we just didn’t realize it until people started analyzing it. when you sear your steak, you didn’t think you were doing the Maillard reaction — you were just searing.” Guests seated in the downstairs dining room of the Chicago restaurant are surrounded by everything from a centrifuge to a freeze dryer, while the periodic table of elements, erlenmeyer flasks and beakers adorn the walls in the minimalist, fine-dining restaurant. it sounds like a science lab, but Farina focuses on the creativity of his dishes just as much as the chemistry. “The big challenge is trying to be on the cutting edge of whatever science and creativity we can use, but it has to taste good,” said Farina. “You have to use the best ingredients, techniques and seasoning because at the end of the day, it’s just food.” That’s not to say his food isn’t fun. His inflated potato dish involves freezedrying potato purée until it takes on an airy, cloud-like texture. “You’re removing a lot of the molecular weight of the product but intensifying the flavor because you’re getting rid of the water. it’s making astronaut food,” he said. The light and airy potato melts back into mashed potatoes on the tongue and is served with octopus, basil and charred horseradish. “For me, it deals with changing the natural state in which you’re used to seeing something,” said Farina. “You know what mashed potatoes look like; you know what a lemon looks like. How many ways can you present lemon juice? You can freeze it, turn it into a sorbet, air, gel, powder — but it still has to taste like lemon juice.” Farina was able to take the heat out of jalapeño for a palate cleanser by using a rotary evaporator that distills under pressure instead of heat. “You drop the atmospheric pressure of the chamber so you’re able to boil water at a much lower temperature — i think 38 degrees C is when we start to see stuff evaporating. it captures the flavors that would’ve been lost in the boiling process,” he explained.
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He starts by juicing jalapeños (seeds and all) and letting them sit out for a day. “if you took a shot, you’d blow your palate out because of all of the capsaicin,” he said. “once we ran the juice through the machine, the distillate was collected so it looked like water.” The salt-rimmed shot tasted like simple, clean jalapeño juice sans heat. Farina also uses a four-quart centrifuge to clarify stocks and quickly juice everything from berries to tomatoes. “it’s normally used to separate blood; we use it to juice things,” said Farina. “Something that would take 48 hours would take 30 minutes, so we’re able to get a better end result faster. A lot of the technology we use enhances the flavor and the efficiency of the way you get to that flavor.” Farina is also a big fan of tapioca maltodextrin, a polysaccharide or tapioca starch derivative used as a stabilizer. it changes the texture of a liquid — say olive oil or chocolate sauce — into a powder, which returns to liquid once back in the mouth. “You’re able to change the way in which you see something but present the flavor profile in a more intense way,” said Farina, who predicts that tapioca maltodextrin will become as ubiquitous as flour in the kitchen someday.
maKinG taste memories Farina and his molecular-inspired colleagues know that being a chef is about focusing on more than just the science. “if you throw a sear and a foam and a reverse gelification and all of these crazy things on a plate, the idea of where you’re going gets lost. You get a real disconnect,” he said. Quality ingredients and balanced compositions are just as impressive as trompe l’oeil (and palate) creations. “it’s more about the guest experience, from the moment they walk through the door to the moment they leave, and how to use creativity and science to change that. For me, science is being creative.” For Humm, science serves as a tool, but only to an extent: “it helps us become better chefs, better technicians and be more precise, but no amount of instruments can replace our sense of taste and intuition in the kitchen. Delicious food is the most important thing, and i don’t believe there’s anything that can detect that better than our own palate.” And ultimately, that’s where taste memories are truly made. ●
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dWild boar and mole at moto in chicago — braised wild boar shoulder, charred tomato sauce, chocolate mole powder, sesame tuile, puffed wild rice and dehydrated blueberry skins.
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how often do you give thought to the utensils you use at the table? ever consider the idea that the color of your spoon or its metallurgy might change the way your soup tastes? in a recent study conducted by scientists Vanessa harrar and charles spence, it seems our cutlery has more to do with our relationship with food than we might think. the color, weight, chemistry and overall appearance of our silverware can alter what we taste. a hypothesis not lost on food geniuses such as grant achatz, Ferran adrià and the late homaro cantu who have revolutionized not only what we eat but what we eat with.
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the AntennA Grant Achatz at alinea, achatz’s chicago restaurant, diners lean in and wrap their mouths around the single, long wire of the antenna. no hands, please. the idea is to force diners to focus on a single bite. in the process, they’re meant to discover the progression of flavors and textures that achatz has strategically planned by the layered placement of chunks and tiny garnishes on the skewer.
3 CorKsCreW forK homaro Cantu cantu’s utensils are stuffed with aromatics such as garlic, herbs and burnt orange peel to enhance the sensory experience of what is being served. the utensils are made to harness the power of aroma, because 75 percent of what we taste is through our noses. DiD you KnoW? / the late and celebrated chef homaru cantu was experimenting with a little pink tablet derived from the miracle berry found on a West african plant. inside this berry is miraculin, a taste modifier that changes flavor perceptions on the tongue. eat the tablet and sour cream will taste like sweet whipped cream, soda water and lemon like sprite.
DAtA in our Diet With a database of thousands of plant samples and their molecular makeups, hampton creek, a tech startup located in san Francisco, is using modeling techniques employed by the likes of google maps to rethink the chicken egg, the condiment and the cookie. hampton creek started up like a lot of tech newbies, in a residential space. ceo and founder Josh tetrick’s la apartment, to be exact. now part science lab, part kitchen, part business looking to revamp our food system, hampton creek is using computer and molecular science, as well as data analytics, biochemistry and culinary HAMPTon CReeK prowess, to redesign the food we eat — naturally. the focus is not on the synthetic or genetically re-engineered ingredient, but the study of plant proteins at the molecular level and how they interact with each other to create texture and taste. alongside the mathematicians and data scientists doing the modeling with the plant proteins at hampton creek are the innovative chefs. they take said protein combinations and whip, fry, bake, sauté, etc., them with other natural ingredients to plate up some of the most common dishes any family anywhere would eat — like the chicken salad sandwich or the chocolate chip cookie. and, yes, they taste great. For tetrick, the melding of science with food happening at hampton creek is not a whim or fading fancy. his aim is to use the power of both to turn our food system on its heels, creating good eats that are healthier for the environment as well as our waistlines and wallets. “We live in a time where the unhealthy choice is dirt cheap and convenient. and the healthy choice is pricey and inconvenient,” said tetrick in a recent hampton creek press release. “our goal has always been to build a company that brings healthier and affordable food to everyone everywhere.” — Jennifer LaForce
sPherifiCAtion sPoon ferran Adrià adrià introduced his spherification cooking technique at elBulli, creating caviar-sized spheres of food bursting with flavor. this mirrorfinished stainless-steel spoon is his design, specifically for handling and not damaging spherified caviar and ravioli as it comes out of its setting bath.
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Collecting Innovation Today: stories from visionaries
Powered by The Henry Ford, Collecting Innovation Today is a video oral history project designed to advance a culture of innovation through interviews with today’s visionaries. Here are edited excerpts from one of those interviews, which are a permanent part of the Archive of American Innovation at The Henry Ford. Clips will be available soon at collections.thehenryford.org.
ALICE WATERS
The Chef The award-winning restaurateur and leader of America’s slow-food movement says never compromise, pay attention to the little things and be open to new paths
DID YOU KNOW? / Alice Waters says her favorite thing to prepare is something with garlic, a mortar and a pestle.
Alice Waters wants to bring people back to their senses — to smell, taste, to listen and see food as a way of life. For her, food is not a profession; it’s a passion and a philosophy that’s been around since the beginning of civilization. Sadly, she says, slow food is also a way of life facing extinction. “Our fast-food culture has completely buried it,” she said. “All around the world, people begin to eat that way, and then they begin to think that way — fast, cheap and easy.”
This spring, The Henry Ford’s Marc Greuther, chief curator, and Christian Øverland, executive vice president, had the opportunity to sit down with Waters at her famed Berkeley, California, restaurant Chez Panisse, which she opened in 1971. As part of The Henry Ford’s Collecting Innovation Today initiative, the two talked to Waters about her long-standing relationship with food, culture and the land; why she thinks farmers are our unsung heroes; and her uncompromising belief that “edible education” in schools can dramatically change our world.c Cooking Up Change TIME magazine once called Alice Waters a revolutionary who wants to change the world through food. Proof positive that the power of one passionate person can reshape the eating habits of a nation.
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Marc Greuther We’re sitting in Chez Panisse. Obviously, a special place for you? Alice Waters I think of the restaurant as a family, and want people to think of it as if it is their own. I think it’s what keeps the restaurant alive — still tasting all the time and bringing ideas back into the restaurant. We are really spreading the word about the philosophy of food, which has been around since the beginning of civilization. Sadly, our fast-food culture has completely buried it. MG How did the restaurant get started? Waters I went to France as a student and saw a country that was a true slow-food culture: fresh bread every day, farmers markets and wonderful food in the school cafeteria. I fell in love with it. I wanted to live like that and knew food was a part of it. I wanted a restaurant to be about real food that tastes delicious. MG I understand you have a teaching background and an appreciation for the ideas of Montessori. Waters When I left teaching to open Chez Panisse, I thought I was closing a chapter in my life. But the ideas of Montessori were deeply implanted, and I did use them to create the restaurant. Like the idea of the prepared classroom, having things that are beautiful in the room and arranging them in such a way so children would be excited — I immediately saw the restaurant in this way. No detail was too small. As soon as you walked in the door, I wanted it to smell good. And if it didn’t smell good enough, I’d burn rosemary and carry it around the restaurant. It’s really about paying attention. When you’re looking at flowers, for example, you want them to represent the season and what’s happening in the kitchen. When you buy food, you buy only what’s in
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season and grown by people who take care of the land. MG Writer Michael Pollan pointed out that you work with people who aren’t necessarily from the profession. Is that something you did consciously, or did you just gravitate toward it? Waters At the beginning, I just wanted to work with my friends. So I hired them. You want to be with people you like, people you have things in common with. Everybody came from different backgrounds. People in the kitchen had been traveling around the world bringing back ideas from France, England, Asia. Having all those different backgrounds really shaped what Chez Panisse is about. MG It wasn’t a business plan? Waters There was never a business plan. I really believe that’s what made us successful. We were never thinking about making money. The most important thing for me was taste, and I was determined to have something that was delicious. MG Was there a point where you realized that there was a movement and you were at its forefront? Waters When James Beard came in the early days with Marion Cunningham. They felt like they were in somebody’s home, and I loved that. And I’ll never forget when Craig Claiborne came into my kitchen with his typewriter. I knew something was going on here. Because we only had one menu each day, we had to make that menu really tasty. There wasn’t an alternative. So we were pushed more quickly to find ingredients that were different.
MG You’ve essentially followed your inclinations and your love. Did you ever feel innovative while doing it? Waters I knew one thing: I wanted a restaurant that tasted like the little restaurants I had been in while in France. I wanted that place, and it was very deliberate. It’s just by good luck that we created the environment that led us to a way of thinking, that allowed us to be creative. And I was uncompromising: “That’s not good enough. That’s not fresh enough.” I became naturally discerning. That in and of itself has pushed us. Christian Øverland Can you tell us about the relationship you have built with farmers? Waters In the beginning, I wasn’t looking for organic farmers. I was looking for taste. I just sort of fell in love with what they were providing. And I was willing to pay them anything for their produce. We built this beautiful relationship. Almost 30 years ago, I also started working with farmer Bob Cannard. At first, it was us giving him seeds and saying, “Would you plant these and pick this like this and do this like that?” Now he tells us what to grow and what to cook, and it’s made the restaurant more grounded. His philosophy is about letting things grow naturally. CØ When you speak about the good food movement and the world today, what do you hope people walk away with in regard to farmers? Waters Since I am completely dependent on farmers, I always talk about how precious they are — how they need to be the heroes of this country. The idea of public education supporting farmers is the priority for me. If schools supported the farmer and the farmer brought his values into the schools, I think we could make dramatic changes across the world.
CØ Are you speaking of your Edible Schoolyard Project? Waters The Edible Schoolyard Project is a curriculum that uses the garden and a kitchen classroom as labs for teaching all subjects, with the idea that cooking and gardening are things we all need to learn how to do. (See story, Edible Education, on Page 42.) CØ With Edible Schoolyard, Chez Panisse and everything you’ve accomplished, what would you say to a knowledge-thirsty protégé? Waters Be open to all kinds of experiences when you’re young. I had amazing mentors, and I really needed them to help me along the way, to give me their best advice. I think that’s how learning happens: When you can work side-byside with someone and they give their knowledge to you. It’s the way we’ve been learning since the beginning of time. l
WATCH Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, a short documentary about how Alice Waters cooked the filmmaker’s shoe a la duck confit. (BTW: Herzog did eat some.)c
DID YOU KNOW? / Alice Waters visited The Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village and Firestone Farm in 2014.
DID YOU KNOW? / American artist and author David Goines printed Chez Panisse’s first menus.
“I can’t think of anything more important than the preservation of the land — its health, its fertility.” — alice waters
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DID YOU KNOW? / One of Alice Waters’ greatest restaurant moments is when the Dalai Lama came to Chez Panisse.
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edible education Schools take cues from celebrated chef Alice Waters to bring healthy eating and living skills to the classroom By Julie Wolfson
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In Berkeley, California, the garden at Martin Luther King Middle School is filled with students tackling the day’s tasks. Eighth-graders trim olive branches. Seventh-grade students crack eggs from the chicken coop into cookie dough in the kitchen. And 11-year-olds learn about the work of a beekeeper while huddling around a live beehive. This scene may sound idyllic, even farfetched in our fast-paced world, but these activities are just part of a regular school day at the original garden and kitchen of chef Alice Waters’ Edible Schoolyard Project. What began as a program aiming to teach simple gardening skills, cooking techniques, manners and respect for the planet has developed into a thriving educational approach that addresses concrete curriculum needs for schoolchildren in the U.S. and around the globe. Now, from New Orleans to Chiang Mai, Thailand, students are being introduced to planting seeds, harvesting vegetables and learning valuable cooking skills. Spending time with children participating in the Edible Schoolyard curriculum reveals that kids who grow and harvest their own food are more likely to eat the fruits of their labors. One morning at Larchmont Charter near downtown Los Angeles, teacher Julie Johnson instructs a student to carefully twist an orange off of the branch to leave the leaves intact. The student carries the piece of fruit across the campus and gently sets it down on a table to be transformed into candied orange peel and fresh fruit punch. The kids talk
about how excited they are to try the candied citrus peels that they have heard will taste like gummy worms, but as a student remarks, with much less processed sugar. What could be better than students thinking these healthy foods are fun to taste after working so hard to grow Swiss chard or learning how to make broth from scratch? Teaching the value of eating nutritious whole foods seems reason enough to invest the time, energy and resources into an Edible Schoolyard program. But spending time with authentically engaged students delving into this curriculum reveals something deeper. While tackling garden and kitchen skills, children are also learning important life lessons. “In the educational world, this set of skills is called social and emotional learning. In psychology of the brain, it is called noncognitive learning. I call it our basic humanity,” said Kyle Cornforth, director of the Edible Schoolyard Berkeley at MLK. “It’s the stuff that makes a person able to look at a problem and solve it using the resources that they have available. It’s creativity. It’s persistence. It’s the ability to collaborate with people who are different than you, to communicate your feelings and understand that the choices you make impact the world, whether it is our personal health or the health of the community.” If experiencing the act of growing a potato, harvesting it and roasting it in a wood-fired oven in the garden and sharing a meal together can teach many of these skills, then when will edible schoolyards become an essential academic subject rather than only
“Feeding children and bringing them into the beautiful garden, allowing them to be empowered to cook and make choices about what they eat, makes them feel like we want them to succeed.” — alice waters
CUltIvatINg gOOD haBIts As part of the edible Schoolyard curriculum, kids not only learn how to grow and cook healthier foods, but they gain a hands-on respect for the land around them.
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WOrKINg Up aN appetIte from farm to kitchen to cafeteria: one of the principles of the edible schoolyard project is that students are more likely to eat what they learn how to plant, nurture, harvest and cook themselves. KATIE STAndKE
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offered if a student is lucky enough to be enrolled at the right school? We already have the many faces of higher education telling us that a math lesson in fractions may engage a student who particularly enjoys numbers or always gets an A on homework and tests. But, for so many others, it’s the experiential, practical applications taught outside the textbooks that students find useful later in life. “It is our deep belief that kids are inherently capable,” said Cornforth, who shares that one of the first kitchen classes for every student involves safety training and knife skills. “We are intentional in the way we train them to use the knives,” noted Cornforth. “We are very clear about our expectations and what the rules and parameters are when using them. We are very respectful of their abilities as 11-, 12- and 13-year-olds.” Each year, the eighth-graders at MlK also fire up the garden oven to make pizza. They grind grain, make dough, grate cheese and make tomato sauce. They learn firsthand it’s not a quick process and remark how different it tastes than the fast-food version.
maKe iT your own Though not all of the 4,500 edible schoolyard programs have the same level of funding, infrastructure and staffing, each one finds its own path with the resources it has. “Anyone can do this. And it can happen in any climate,” said Cornforth. “You do not have to have an Alice Waters.” In Bakersfield, California, Barbara Grimm-Marshall founded the Grimm Family Foundation to develop educational opportunities in the agricultural part of California where she owns Grimmway Farms. The foundation’s mission to open charter schools
with edible schoolyards led GrimmMarshall to also fund a full program at Buena Vista Elementary, the school across the street from her home. The program at Buena Vista features a full representation of Waters’ original MlK setup with a ramada surrounded by a thriving farm, wood-burning oven, greenhouse and a full kitchen. In a world filled with phone, tablet and computer screens, the concepts being learned in Buena Vista’s kitchen and garden are tactile. “This program gives them an understanding that they need to be aware of their surroundings and what they are putting into their body,” said head kitchen teacher Hannah Bucher. Garden tasks also add physical activity to the school day for kids in a district with no PE classes for elementary grades. The physical space and staffing for edible schoolyards around the world also take many forms. In Cincinnati, Ohio, the rothenberg Preparatory Academy has a rooftop garden. Meanwhile, the Montezuma School to Farm Project in Mancos, Colorado, has more than two acres to cultivate. The schoolyard work has inspired university programs as well, including Bija Vidyapeeth (Earth University) in doon Valley, India, where 40 acres of the campus have a seed bank, soiltesting laboratory, kitchen, organic farm, medicinal herb garden, mango orchard, composting site and a library. “We are giving our next generations the ability to survey a situation, assess what it means and be self-starting, to make things happen,” said Cornforth. “It’s those skills that when you are hiring somebody, you really want them to have — kindness, graciousness, care, intention. An environmental awareness and stewardship and a desire to tread as lightly as you can.” l
“We are giving our next generations the ability to survey a situation, assess what it means and be self-starting, to make things happen.” — Kyle cornforth, director of the Edible Schoolyard Berkeley at MLK
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as prepared by edible Schoolyard Berkeley INgreDIeNts 3 bunches greens, sliced or chopped (kale, collards, chard, bok choy) 3 tablespoons olive oil 1-inch piece ginger, minced 8 cloves garlic, minced 4 tablespoons soy sauce 2 tablespoons sesame oil 1 tablespoon rice vinegar methOD Wash the greens in cold water, remove the stems (kale, collards) and slice the flat stems (chard, bok choy). Put the leaves and stems in separate bowls. In a heavy-bottomed pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat and stir in the ginger and garlic. When they begin to sizzle, add the flat stems and cook for 1-2 minutes. Add the greens, and when they are half-cooked, add the soy sauce, sesame oil and rice vinegar. Cook until tender and serve over grains.
Inspired by Alice Waters and the work of her edible Schoolyard Project, the Garden School foundation in Los Angeles has recently published its curriculum to help other schools teach garden and cooking lessons. Visit gardenschoolfoundation.org for more information.
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Off the Shelf Recommended Films, Fine Reads and Dot-coms
The Prince’s Speech: On the Future of Food by HRH the Prince of Wales CHRISTIAN ØVERLAND, THE HENRY FORD’S EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, REVIEWS RODALE’S SPECIAL EDITION OF PRINCE CHARLES’ KEYNOTE SPEECH GIVEN AT THE 2011 FUTURE OF FOOD CONFERENCE.
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I am a fan of little books with big messages, and one of my favorites is Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Published in 1776, Paine’s book argued for freedom from British rule and stirred massive debate in colonial taverns and meeting places — fostering a movement, a revolution and the birth of our democracy. Another little book that has great meaning about the modern industrial food system and the future of our agriculture and foodways is The Prince’s Speech: On the Future of Food. The essay is a rational and impassioned call to action that addresses one of the most important questions for the 21st century: Is there a need to develop a sustainable agriculture system for our future? Ideas and questions about the future of food are presented in this book by a farmer, father and grandfather who knows what it is like to try and feed more people as fertile farmlands decrease annually across the world. This farmer just happens to be His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales (HRH). In 2011, HRH gave the keynote speech at the Future of Food Conference at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The conference brought together many of the world’s leading experts on food such as HRH, a lifelong environmentalist and organic farmer; Laurie David, environmentalist, author and Academy Award-winning producer; Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation; farmer and poet Wendell Berry, winner of the National Humanities Medal; and Will Allen, founder of Growing Power, whose story is now a part of the Archive of American Innovation at The Henry Ford. As a farmer for the past 30-plus years, HRH has recognized threats to our food systems. He created the International Sustainability Unit to resolve some of the key environmental challenges facing the world, with a focus on food security, ecosystem resilience and the depletion of natural capital. HRH offers insight into research such as the 2008 International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development as well as the United Nations’ 2011 study Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication. While citing the need to fix our agricultural practices, he cautions, “We need to include in the bottom line the true costs of food production — the true financial costs and the true financial costs to the earth.” HRH calls it “accounting for sustainability.” He points out that, “Capitalism depends on capital, but our capital ultimately depends on the health of Nature’s capital.” Painting a clear picture of how the health and resiliencies of our agricultural and natural systems are related to the resiliencies of our national economies, HRH asks: If we continue to favor agri-industry over agriculture, what will be the future of food? If you are looking for some “common sense” in the discussion and debate about our food systems, start by reading this little book, and then pass it along to your friends. Talk with them about the questions raised by HRH, who finished his essay with the words and vision of George Washington: “Raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.” And, as HRH proposed, “indeed, as so often in the past, in the hands of your great country, the United States of America.”
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
If your mind still craves more about food, the Benson Ford Research Center has a cornucopia of additional resources laden with thoughts, ideas and hard-core facts about farming, food movements, culinary visionaries and the politics of what we eat. For help with access, write to research.center@ thehenryford.org. On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm by Michael Ableman White Bread: A Social History of the StoreBought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Mike Trombley Executive Chef The Henry Ford
The French Laundry Cookbook By Thomas Keller
It was not an easy task when asked to choose a work that has made the most impact on or influenced what I do. After careful consideration and many visits to my personal culinary library, Thomas Keller’s, French Laundry is my chosen cookbook. Though it may seem advanced to some, the core is classic as well as modern cooking techniques utilizing such things as sous vide or some molecular recipes. Still relevant now and sure to be in the future. Chef Trombley also suggests watching the 2014 comedy/ drama Chef directed by Jon Favreau. “This may be the first movie in the cooking world to describe what is relevant now with social media and what an impact it can have on your business. It also shows what taking a risk and being creative with a food truck can do.”
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Eating Oil, Eating Sunshine
Women & Whiskies
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By Michael Pollan
In this fascinating lecture delivered by professor and author Michael Pollan from the University of California, Berkeley, you will enjoy a brief discussion of agriculture in the U.S. from the 1940s through present day. This presentation highlights some of the problems in our food system and also covers some innovative ideas being practiced by farmers Joel Salatin and Will Allen (who was featured in the JuneDecember 2013 issue of The Henry Ford Magazine). For best results, enter Eating Oil, Eating Sunshine in the youtube.com search box, and start viewing the lecture at 23:15. Also browse Michael Pollan’s library of books about food at michaelpollan.com.
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Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West By Stephen Fried
Except for those who recall Judy Garland’s 1946 movie The Harvey Girls, few people today know of Fred Harvey. Stephen Fried’s meticulously researched yet highly readable narrative is an attempt to remedy that. When Harvey partnered with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to raise food and food service standards at railroad eateries out West, his innovations changed the course of American hospitality. A list of stillextant Harvey Houses is included.
Whiskey isn’t a drink just for men. Just ask Lady Gaga. Big brands are paying attention to the growing group of female whiskey fans and launching digital marketing efforts like womenandwhiskies. com. Created by Campari Group, the site offers whiskey facts and recipes. Its Instagram account is followed by more than 10,000 users and posts dreamythemed images of punches and straightup drinks that will make you thirsty no matter the time of day.
Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the Skies by Richard Foss Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America by Wenonah Hauter City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing by Lorraine Johnson The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky Dinner at the New Gene Café: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food by Bill Lambrecht Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back by Ann Vileisis Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal by Melanie Warner
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Inside The henry Ford Here’s your ultimate guide to the world’s premier history destination.
The Henry Ford is 200 acres of innovation, 300 years of history and 26 million artifacts. Flip through the following pages to find out what’s happening inside this mind-blowing cultural institution during the summer and fall.
Henry Ford Museum 54 Greenfield Village 56 Ford Rouge Factory Tour 58 IMAX® Theatre 60 Take It Forward 62 Acquisitions + collections 64 2015 Events 66
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Dining on the Go Lamy’s Diner is a restored rest stop for museum guests on the move things are more American than the road trip. And when you’re on a long journey, half the fun is searching the roadside for that offbeat spot to grab a bite to eat. Journey through Henry Ford Museum, and you’ll discover Lamy’s Diner, an homage to this classic element of the American road experience. A blue-enameled beacon on the museum floor, Lamy’s is a restored 1946 diner in the heart of the Driving America exhibit. It is a well-placed rest stop serving light snacks and drinks to thousands of on-the-go guests to The Henry Ford each year. “Our vision is to make food part of the historic experience,” said Donna Braden, curator of public life at The Henry Ford. “It’s an important part of transporting you to a place and time.” Indeed. Driving America focuses on the relationship between automobiles and the people who drive them — bringing to life the ways in which cars have changed our world and our daily lives. Within that changing landscape, noted Braden, was the emergence of the roadside diner. Lamy’s was acquired by The Henry Ford in the 1980s after diner expert Richard Gutman visited the complex and was drawn to the Owl Night Lunch Wagon in Greenfield Village (see story on Page 27). A relationship bloomed and
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The Henry Ford eventually asked Gutman to help find a diner worthy of display in the museum. Gutman didn’t disappoint, discovering Lamy’s in Massachusetts. The diner, made by Worcester Lunch Car Co., had been owned and operated by Clovis Lamy in the ‘40s. “Most people, when they think of diners, think of New Jersey diners from the 1950s — those rectangular boxes of stainless steel,” Braden said. “The Massachusetts diners date back further and have lots of handcraftsmanship. It’s just beautiful.” Now restored and in working order, Lamy’s features a handmade wooden interior, 16 counter stools, six four-person booths, (nonworking) tabletop jukeboxes and typewritten menus. Music from the era plays in the background. An attached, open dining platform overlooking portions of the Driving America exhibit offers guests more seating. Locally manufactured products from Faygo soft drinks and Better Made potato chips are served alongside a variety of 1940s dinerstyle sandwiches and snacks. Henry Ford Museum recently hired a historicfood consultant to recommend more authentic touches for Lamy’s, from additional menu items and décor elements to waitstaff uniforms. “I think people seek out Lamy’s because the atmosphere is so unusual and unique,” said Braden. “This is the real thing.”
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aN INTerseCTION OF FOOD & Cars
When you stroll through Henry Ford Museum’s Driving America, Donna Braden, curator of public life at The Henry Ford, suggests you explore how the exhibit showcases the intersection of cars and food. “We made a huge effort to populate cases with interesting three-dimensional objects that told the story of cars and the roadside,” noted Braden. Three cases focus on diners, fast-food places and roadside stops. A look at on-the-go restaurants includes the Negro Motorist Green Book, a 1949 guide to eateries that would seat AfricanAmericans (in Michigan, they could be found only in Detroit and Idlewild). Other items on display include an iconic Big Boy figurine (below) and a massive 1960 McDonald’s sign with only a single golden arch, the restaurant’s original moniker.
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Tasteful Times Food traditions are an important part of The Henry Ford’s collections and guest experience define foodways as the study of eating habits and culinary practices of a people, region or historical period. At The Henry Ford, a dedication to its inclusion in the guest experience is distinctive. “We have an amazing thing here at Greenfield Village; it’s like a changing food gallery,” said James Johnson, senior manager of venue events and village programs for The Henry Ford. “I’m not aware of anywhere else where so many eras of food can be brought to life.” Over the last three decades, The Henry Ford’s foodways initiatives have led to a dedicated series of food-themed programs, events, community partnerships and living exhibits, so to speak — all designed to immerse the guest in everything food from the past 300 years. “Everybody eats,” added Johnson. “It’s a great way to connect with the past.” In fact, the deep reservoir of The Henry Ford’s expert knowledge — whether in regard to historical food preparation, preservation or cooking methods and utensils — is unmatched, making it one of the most distinguished and exclusive artifacts of the institution’s vast collections. “Thirty years ago, there were still people who had connections to people who actually lived these traditions,” said Johnson. “It becomes harder to find that now. That’s why we have a dedicated crew who can teach and mentor.” Every day in Greenfield Village, members of this crew bring the history of 18th- and 19thcentury eating to life by doing. At the Daggett
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Farmhouse (1760s) and Firestone Farm (1880s), for example, guests can see food processed and prepared to historical standards daily. Tables are set with reproduction tableware and condiments. All dishes are prepared according to season and available sources as well as a family’s particular cultural traditions. In the village eatery Eagle Tavern, guests can take their historical food experience to the next level, actually consuming meals that draw on recipes from 19th-century cookbooks. “Where our research really makes a big difference is in the look and feel of the food at Eagle Tavern,” said Mike Trombley, The Henry Ford’s executive chef. “It was a radical concept when it started in 1982. At that time, lots of research was done, but the supplier base wasn’t there to support what we wanted to do. An organically fed, freerange chicken was almost unheard of.” Eagle Tavern’s menu has really blossomed thanks to the growing supply of local produce and products. Today, in fact, 70 percent of the food The Henry Ford serves comes from local growers and food artisans. For guests, the end result is an opportunity to go outside their food comfort zones and let their modern-day palates take a taste of bygone eras — sampling speckled greens, heirloom tomatoes and the Eagle Tavern’s ever-popular and acclaimed braised rabbit with root veggie stew. And according to Johnson, with a little education, derring-do and fork in hand, most are hungry to give it a try.
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DID YOU KNOW? / Apple varieties from Greenfield Village’s orchards are used to make specific varieties of bitters for beverages described in Jerry Thomas’ Bartender’s Guide from 1862. DID YOU KNOW? / Eagle Tavern uses herbs harvested from Greenfield Village’s own herb bed as well as honey from on-site hives.
The food, its presentation a and the atmosphere at Eagle Tavern draw on 19th-century traditions.
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There’s no denying it: Early Americans drank their sauce. Per capita liquor intake in the 19th century was about double what it is today, and beer was drunk by nearly everyone — including children. But don’t get the wrong idea. Our ancestors didn’t necessarily prescribe to a boozy ethos. It was just often safer to partake in “slightly” alcoholic beverages in pre-refrigeration/icebox days. Greenfield Village offers several historic imbibing options at Eagle Tavern, from the Calvin, made from amber rum, amaretto and sarsaparilla, to the Apple Toddy, made with applejack, maple sugar, lemon and spice. These house specialties and others are pulled from Jerry Thomas’ Bartender’s Guide, an 1862 book that was the first known guide of its kind. In partnership with Mountain Town Brewing Co. in Mount Pleasant, Greenfield Village also produces Old Liz Amber Ale, a high-octane beer made with Michigan honey and maple syrup. “Old Liz is a signature beer, made just for us,” said Mike Trombley, The Henry Ford’s executive chef. “It’s a very long and extensive endeavor, but it’s worth it. People love it. It’s hard to keep on the shelves.”
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3-D projection mapping wows in Manufacturing Innovation Theater aluminum-body Ford F-150 dazzled visitors at the North American International Auto Show in January 2015 in Detroit, taking top honors as the North American Truck/ Utility of the Year. The story of how this revolutionary truck was conceived, designed and made is now dazzling visitors to the Ford Rouge Factory Tour. It’s all captured on film and told in technically astounding fashion in the Manufacturing Innovation Theater. “We wanted people to walk away saying, ‘America still makes stuff and making stuff is cool,’” said Cynthia Jones, manager of the Ford Rouge Factory Tour, about the 10-minute film. Designed to be immersive for the viewer, the film is presented on seven large screens and uses a combination of technology, music and lighting to create a multisensory experience. As the film focuses on the development of the truck, the theater floor starts to vibrate and a ¾-scale F-150 rises from below while two massive production robots on either side project lasers over it. Throughout the experience, the robots appear to assemble the truck, which changes colors and comes alive with 3-D projection mapping. Near the end, as an F-150 accelerates and zooms down an open road on-screen, the model truck appears to accelerate, too, and viewers feel the floor vibrate beneath their feet. The combined effect is dramatic and thrilling. “We were trying to create an attraction that takes the values of The Henry Ford and Ford
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Motor Co., which align around innovation, and create a wow,” said Christian Lachel, vice president and executive creative director at BRC Imagination Arts, the Californiabased company that oversaw the theater’s new experience. BRC used a 3-D printer to create the theater’s model truck, a creative decision inspired by the Ford design team behind the truck’s aluminum-based remodel. “When you see a 3-D printer printing out the side of a vehicle, like we did in Ford’s design labs, suddenly science, math and engineering are about more than just equations,” said Jones. The film’s score was composed based on time spent on the assembly line listening to hundreds of robots all working in sync. Pros from Cirque du Soleil were brought in to help develop the theater’s lighting elements. All systems are operated through a complex, connected web of computer servers. “Every single piece is choreographed together,” said Lachel. “It’s not a film you can see at home. It’s something we built just for this audience and this story.” The theater and film soft-opened last November. The very first day, Jones said, the new experience passed what she called “the teenager test.” “Teens are often here with their school and not by choice,” she said. “When I see teenagers go from leaned-back bored to sitting up, forward on their seats, right into it — and we get them to clap — it’s a home run.”
DID YOU KNOW? / Popular Science gave the 2015 Ford F-150 a “Best of What’s New” award, recognizing the truck as a game changer for the auto industry.
“Ford as a company is about people. It’s about innovation, but people are what drive the innovation.” — Cynthia Jones, Ford Rouge Factory Tour manager
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DID YOU KNOW? / A GoPro camera that was either taped on the end of a robotic arm or strapped to equipment running through the production line shot some of the film footage.
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Going Fishing The Henry Ford’s IMAX film menu takes viewers under the sea summer, visitors to The Henry Ford IMAX Theatre are in for some underwater adventure with two new traditional IMAX documentary films, Humpback Whales and Secret Ocean 3D. “Films that do the best justice to the IMAX medium are those that take the audience to real places they can’t normally go or visit,” said Ron Bartsch, The Henry Ford’s senior manager of IMAX projection and programming. Humpback Whales, directed by IMAX filmmaker Greg MacGillivray (Everest, Hurricane on the Bayou), took about five years to produce and is the first IMAX film to specifically focus on the humpback. “Here’s an amazing animal that people love and was once on the brink of extinction but now is coming back,” said Bartsch. “Greg wanted to do this film to create awareness of humpback whales, their beauty and their conservation.”
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Humpback Whales, presented entirely on classic IMAX 15-perforation/70mm film stock, was shot underwater by divers using cameras encased in waterproof housings. said Bartsch of its painstaking production, “Filming sea life is much like going fishing: sometimes you come up with nothing.” Secret Ocean 3D runs concurrently. starring Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of the legendary French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, the film came by its name because it captures images of sea life never seen before on film. By using a small camera with a long lens, Cousteau gets unbelievable close-ups — in some cases, right into the mouths of unsuspecting aquatic creatures. “It’s beautiful, not ominous,” said Bartsch. “He [Cousteau] takes the viewer where most can’t go, showcasing sea life and at the same time raising awareness of the importance of protecting our oceans.”
“If I had to single out an IMAX filmmaker who has done so much for the medium, for education and the importance of protecting our oceans, it’s Greg macGillivray.”
DID YOU KNOW? / Within the collections of The Henry Ford is a flexible Detroit Diesel Series 71 engine from Calypso, the faithful research ship of French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau.b
— ron bartsch, the henry ford DID YOU KNOW? / The Henry Ford’s IMAX screen, at 62-feet tall and 85-feet wide, is the largest screen in Michigan and the only flat screen on which classic IMAX 70mm film stock is projected.
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A mother humpback whale and a her calf in Humpback Whales.
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one with the whales Humpback Whales was directed by Greg MacGillivray. The Henry Ford recently asked him about his experiences while filming one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures in the Kingdom of Tonga, Alaska and Hawaii. THF What was your most fascinating moment captured on film? MacGillivray The bubble-net group feeding we captured in southeast Alaska. In this region, some humpbacks herd herring into a tight ball by blowing bubbles in a circle to trap the fish. They then lunge upward from below to catch a mouthful. It’s one of the more sophisticated examples of animals working together cooperatively. THF What was something you learned about these majestic animals? DID YOU KNOW? / The underwater crew filming Humpback Whales used unobtrusive snorkeling equipment and cutting-edge RED digital cameras to capture on-thefly underwater images.
MacGillivray I learned how much there is still to learn and how little scientists really know about the humpback. Thankfully, with all the latest technological advances, scientists are now able to collect data better than ever before. THF What are some of the biggest hazards and challenges of underwater filming? How do you tackle them? MacGillivray Filming wildlife is unpredictable. You can go looking for whales to film, but they decide whether to stick around long enough to let you actually film them. The experience is entirely on their terms. We saw lots and lots of whales, but only a few came close enough, and stayed long enough, for us to get those incredible close-ups. One mother and her calf in Tonga stayed with us for four hours. That was a magical day.
A clownfish and sea anemone in a Secret Ocean 3D.
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on the farm a Cooking at home on an open hearth requires time and careful planning. Low on heat, slow to finish and worth the wait.
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DID YOU KNOW? / The modern kitchen oven range was the 1790s invention of Count Rumford (born Benjamin Thompson), an American-born physicist.
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Cooking over an open flame with the stars above. Cavemen did it. Cowboys did it. The caretakers at Firestone Farm still do it, making apple butter every fall.
DID YOU KNOW? / According to the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association, 65 percent of charcoal grill owners still use classic charcoal briquets.
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it’s feeDinG time Cathy Cwiek, manager of historic foodways and domestic life programs at The Henry Ford, gets her garden advice from Michigan state university’s Master Gardener Core Manual. Make one of her favorite compost recipes, and start feeding your plants a well-balanced diet.
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Food on wheels ain’t nothing new. In the 1890s, Owl Night pulled up and served food fast to night shift workers on break in Detroit. Today, we’ve got taco trucks, coffee carts and rolling BBQ shacks tooling around our towns.
DID YOU KNOW? / After Henry Ford acquired and refurbished the Owl Night Lunch Wagon in 1927, it served as the sole refreshment stand in Greenfield Village.
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on the Goc With less time in a faster-paced world, a new kind of home cooking emerges. No fire required, just slip in your dish and turn the dial.
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unDer the aWninGc Every well-appointed outdoor oasis needs a flashy barbecue to get things cooking. President Dwight D. Eisenhower put this Partio on his patio in the 1960s — part electric range, part charcoal barbecue, part rotisserie.
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At picnics and parks, in backyards and on the beach, the charcoal briquet brings the heat. The brainchild of Henry Ford and E.G. KIngsford was a way to reuse wood scraps from the production of the Model T.
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GoinG for seconDsc Nowadays, dining away from home is not just for necessity but for the experience of it. A place where you can savor and socialize, where eating well is an art.
As highways and byways crisscross our nation, the charismatic roadside diner emerges. simple, satisfying, sit-at-the-counter eats for hungry on-the-go motorists.
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Acquisitions + collections
A Good Apple The Henry Ford acquires a big byte of computer history 64 of them are known to still exist today. Only 15 of those are actually operational. The 1976 Apple 1 computer was the first preassembled personal computer and is one of the world’s most valuable relics of the computer age. The Henry Ford now has one in its collections. Last fall, Kristen Gallerneaux, curator of communications and information technology, attended the Bonhams History of Science auction on behalf of The Henry Ford. She walked away exclaiming, “Wow!” as a fully operational 1976 Apple 1 computer, one of the first 50 to be assembled, became The Henry Ford’s latest acquisition. And a most significant addition it is. “The operability of this computer lends it value as a complete, uncompromised artifact with a potential for rich interpretive and research opportunities among future generations. This is a pure, primary physical document
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DID YOU KNOW? / Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold their most prized personal possessions (Jobs sold his 1960s VW Microbus and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator) to fund the production of the first batch of Apple 1’s. This sacrifice is the backbone that led to the founding of Apple Inc.
of the computing age,” wrote Gallerneaux in a recent blog post. John Barkley Anderson, the founder of the Cincinnati AppleSiders Apple user group, previously owned The Henry Ford’s Apple 1. In addition to the central motherboard, The Henry Ford also acquired an original keyboard, monitor, power source and two tape drives to run programs. Supporting historical documents include an owner’s manual and schematics signed by Steve Wozniak; authenticating certificates and paper programs from early AppleVention conferences; VHS copies of Wozniak’s 1980 AppleVention keynote speech; and a collection of newsletters from the Cincinnati AppleSiders. Currently, the Apple 1 is in safe storage inside the Benson Ford Research Center. The hows and whens of introducing this extraordinary slice of computer history to the public are still in the works, but it is sure to be one of the richest interpretative experiences possible.
DID YOU KNOW? / The Henry Ford has several kit computers, precursors to the Apple 1, in its collection, including Heathkits and the IMSAI 8080.
DID YOU KNOW? / The Apple 1 sold for $666.66 in 1976.
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Apple’s Steve Wozniak sat down with The Henry Ford as part of its OnInnovation oral history project in 2008. He talks about how the Apple 1 came to be. “ ... Steve Jobs wasn’t going to the Homebrew Computer Club at first, and I started telling him about this interest, this computer I had built. He started coming to the club, and he saw there was interest in it. And I was passing out my schematics for free ... my code listings for the little program I had written for free saying, ‘Build your own. You can build your own.’ “One high school kid, Randy Wigginton — I went over to his house, and I soldered it together for hours and hours and built it for him. But Steve Jobs came and he said, ‘You know what? These people don’t want to spend the time building it. They want to buy it already built. So here’s what we do. We make a PC board. This blank PC board is a green board with little metallic silver traces on it, wires that are connecting things. You plug the chips in. Maybe it takes you five minutes. All the chips are in the right place. We assumed that the people could get chips from their companies or whatever. Plug the chips in, solder the bottom where the chips plug in and you’re done. You don’t have to add one wire.’ “So that was his idea, that we build this PC board for $20, sell it for $40 and call ourselves Apple Computer.” ONLINE Enjoy Wozniak’s entire interview with The Henry Ford oninnovation.comc
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2015 events
Celebrate. Play. Imagine.
rOAdSIde AmerIcA: Through the Lens of john margolies JUNE 20, 2015-JANUARY 24, 2016 HENRY FORD MUSEUM
John Margolies has spent decades photographing the quirks and ingenuity of America’s roadside architecture. As far as his masterful eye is concerned, no forgotten shop front is off-limits, rundown diner unworthy or behemoth commercial sign obnoxious. He purposely cataloged architecture and details others didn’t take seriously or didn’t even notice.
Take a drive down the byways and back roads of America with Margolies in this limited-engagement exhibit as The Henry Ford shares its recently acquired collection of his body of work. Admire photos and felt pennants as well as dozens of oddball hotel “Do Not Disturb” signs Margolies picked up during his travels. Offbeat, creative and fascinating.
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DID YOU KNOW? / Parking for Maker Faire Detroit has been extended to include lots at the nearby Dearborn campus of the University of Michigan. A shuttle to and from the Faire will be provided.
mAKer FAIre® deTrOIT JULY 25-26 THE HENRY FORD
it has been called the greatest show-and-tell on earth. More than 400 makers bring everything innovative they’ve got to this event, from oddball robotic creations and fantastical flame shooters to really fine handmade fashions and accessories. This year also marks the Faire’s debut of Cirque Mechanics, known for inspired mechanical acrobatics.
expect easier parking and access to exhibitors inside and outside The Henry Ford thanks in part to the outdoor midway’s new location — now behind the museum in the Lovett Hall parking lot. Channel your inner innovator, get your hands dirty and make something.
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DIY WITH MODDER BEN HECK A chosen group of makers will show off their spirited inventions and meet with celebrity modder ben Heck (The Ben Heck Show) during Maker Faire® Detroit. be sure to search out the element14 booth on July 26 when the cameras may be rolling.
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bMotor Muster is a vintage auto enthusiast’s dream weekend with more than 500 automotive marvels on the streets and lawns of Greenfield Village.
national Get Outdoors day
macy’s 2nd mondays children’s Program
June 13 Greenfield Village
(10 a.m.-noon) June 8, July 13, August 10, September 14, October 12 Greenfield Village
Historic base ball Games
June 13-14, 20-21 and 27-28 Greenfield Village Historic base ball in Greenfield Village is made possible through the generous support of Cynthia and edsel b. Ford ii.
November 9, December 14 Henry Ford Museum
Tinker. Hack. Invent. Saturdays
roadside America: Through the Lens of john margolies June 20, 2015January 24, 2016 Henry Ford Museum Supported by Ford Motor Company Fund
Summer discovery camp* June 22-26, July 6-10, July 13-17, July 20-24, July 27-31 and August 3-7 The Henry Ford
every Saturday Henry Ford Museum
june Outdoor Living Lab Tour*
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Running through October 10 Ford Rouge Factory Tour
KRiSTiNA SiKORA / KMS PHOTOGRAPHy
roadside America: Through the Lens of john margolies Preview* w
Local roots evening dining* Spring wine Tasting and Dinner June 5 w Michigan Café Henry Ford Museum
June 19 Henry Ford Museum
motor muster
June 20-21 (Open Saturday ’til 9 p.m.) w Greenfield Village
member Appreciation days June 5-7 The Henry Ford
roadside America: Through the Lens of john margolies Running through January 24, 2016 Henry Ford Museum
Historic base ball Games
August 1-2, 8-9, 15-16 and 22-23 Greenfield Village
World Tournament of Historic base ball® August 8-9 Greenfield Village
Historic base ball in Greenfield Village is made possible through the generous support of Cynthia and edsel b. Ford ii.
Summer blues, brews and Local Roots bbQ August 14 w Pavilion, Greenfield Village
SePTember roadside America: Through the Lens of john margolies Running through January 24, 2016 Henry Ford Museum
Target Family day** September 7 Henry Ford Museum Presented by Target
Historic base ball Games July 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 and 25-26 Greenfield Village
Join The Henry Ford for a lively conversation with famed author and worldrenowned historian David McCullough as he launches his new book, The Wright Brothers.
maker Faire® detroit*
advance reservation required
Running through January 24, 2016 Henry Ford Museum
Local roots evening dining*
July 1-4 Greenfield Village
ragtime Street Fair
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An evening with david mccullough* Henry Ford Museum Anderson Theater June 10
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July 11-12 (Open Saturday ’til 9 p.m.) w Greenfield Village
July 25-26 (Open Saturday and Sunday ’til 6 p.m.) w The Henry Ford in collaboration with Make Magazine Ultimate Maker Sponsors Ford Motor Company Fund and Shell
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Roadside America: Through the Lens of John Margolies exhibit, June 20, 2015-January 24, 2016, in Henry Ford Museum.
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Become a member and receive unlimited free admission to Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. For details, visit thehenryford.org/ membership.
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Come celebrate the glories of traditional American food from c farm to table during Fall Flavor Weekends.
65th Annual Old Car Festival
Hallowe’en in Greenfield Village*
Farmers Market
Hallowe’en in Greenfield Village Dinner Package*
September 12-13 (Open Saturday ’til 9 p.m.) w Greenfield Village September 26 Greenfield Village
Fall Flavor Weekend
September 26-27 Greenfield Village
october Roadside America: Through the Lens of John Margolies Running through January 24, 2016 Henry Ford Museum
Farmers Market October 3 Greenfield Village
Fall Flavor Weekend
October 3-4 Greenfield Village
October 9-11, 15-18 and 22-25 w Greenfield Village
October 9-10, 15-17 and 22-24 w Greenfield Village
NOVEMBER Roadside America: Through the Lens of John Margolies Running through January 24, 2016 Henry Ford Museum
Local Roots Evening Dining* Fall Cooking with The Henry Ford November 6 w Lovett Hall, The Henry Ford
Member Appreciation Days November 6-8 The Henry Ford
Members 22nd Annual Holiday Lighting Ceremony* November 23 w Henry Ford Museum
Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village* December 4-6, 11-13, 17-23 and 26-28 w Greenfield Village
Holiday Nights Supper with Santa Package at A Taste of History®*
Holidays in Henry Ford Museum
December 4-6, 11-13 and 17-23 w Greenfield Village
DECEMBER
Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village Dinner Package at Eagle Tavern*
November 27, 2015January 3, 2016 Henry Ford Museum
Holidays in Henry Ford Museum Running through January 3, 2016 Henry Ford Museum
All programs and dates are subject to change.
BEFORE YOU VISIT It’s a good idea to give a quick call or check online to confirm dates, times and locations for all events. visit thehenryford.org call 313.982.6001
December 4-6, 11-13, 17-23 and 26-28 w Greenfield Village
Roadside America: Through the Lens of John Margolies Running through January 24, 2016 Henry Ford Museum
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Innovation in Education: Joining forces to transform hearts and minds An eighth-grader in Massachusetts solicited letters from prisoners as part of a project to raise awareness about stereotypes. A seventh-grader in Southern California prepared peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the homeless. A ninth-grader in Israel became a mentor to a 7-yearold girl whose father had recently died of brain cancer. All were inspired to engage with their communities and produce video essays about these experiences using IWitness, a free educational website for middle and high school students developed by USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education. The award-winning website brings the first-person stories of survivors and witnesses of genocide from the Institute’s Visual History Archive to students
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via multimedia-learning activities that are accessible via Macs, PCs, iPads, and tablet devices connected to the Internet. The Institute is committed to using its vast archive of video interviews of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and genocides as a tool for education and action. Through a partnership between USC Shoah Foundation, The Henry Ford Academy and Ford Motor Company, the use of the IWitness educational platform is expanding in the Detroit area. Currently, about 100 educators in Michigan — and more than 6,500 globally — use IWitness. The platform — which designs learning activities around short, curated clips of testimonies — provides an experience that takes students beyond the textbook in a way that brings added relevance to their studies.
“The vision is to use lessons from the past combined with 21st century innovative educational tools to inspire current and future generations to be responsible global citizens,” said Stephen Smith, executive director of USC Shoah Foundation. This September, Steven Spielberg, founder of USC Shoah Foundation, will present William Clay Ford, Jr., executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company, with the Institute’s Ambassador for Humanity Award at the organization’s annual gala at Henry Ford Museum. A significant portion of the proceeds raised at the gala will remain in the Detroit region and will be utilized for the partnership to bring USC Shoah Foundation educational programs to secondary schools in the area.
DID YOU KNOW? / Ford Motor Company was the sole sponsor of the 1997 NBC broadcast of the Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List, which inspired the establishment of The Institute for Visual History and Education.
ONLINE Want to learn more? Henry Ford Academy dbn.hfli.orgc USC Shoah Foundation sfi.usc.edu c IWitness iwitness.usc.educ
stay, explore + savor it’s simple. We’ll help. You don’t have to wonder where you might stay while you explore The Henry Ford. All the info you need about available lodging options, from hotel names and locations to drive times from attractions to descriptions of the many amenities offered, is right here. We’ve also tossed in a few extras about where you can — and should — grab a bite around town. Making your travel plans will be as easy as pie.
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Preferred Hotel Partners
Adoba Hotel Dearborn/Detroit 600 Town Center Drive Dearborn, MI 48126 313.592.3622 adobadearborn.com A contemporary four-diamond hotel, noted for its trendy atmosphere, spacious accommodations and superb service. Featuring complimentary self-parking, heated indoor pool, Jacuzzi and fitness center. Adjacent to Fairlane Town Center mall and just minutes from The Henry Ford.
Best Western Greenfield Inn 3000 Enterprise Drive Allen Park, MI 48101 313.271.1600 bestwesterngreenfield.com Discover Old World hospitality in a one-ofa-kind, truly unique hotel. Known as the Pink Palace, this full-service hotel offers a perfect blend of historic charm and modern-day conveniences. Enjoy our indoor pool, whirlpool, sauna, free high-speed Internet, fresh-baked cookies, O’Henry’s Restaurant and Squire’s Pub. Complimentary shuttle to The Henry Ford. Located minutes from The Henry Ford.
COMFORT INN & Suites - dearborn 20061 Michigan Avenue Dearborn, MI 48124 313.436.9600 comfortinn.com/hotel-dearbornmichigan-MI385 Centrally located in historic Dearborn overlooking The Henry Ford. Just minutes from Fairlane Town Center mall. Beautiful rooms and suites. Large heated indoor pool and fitness center. All rooms have a flat-screen TV, refrigerator, microwave, iron and hair dryer. Complimentary shuttle, hot breakfast, parking and high-speed Internet.
Comfort Inn & Suites of Taylor 6778 South Telegraph Road Taylor, MI 48180 313.292.6730 comfortinntaylor.com Enjoy a comfortable stay with outstanding hospitality. This hotel features indoor swimming pool, whirlpool, sauna and fitness center, free 30-item hot breakfast buffet and free high-speed Internet. Suites available. Rooms include refrigerator, coffee, coffeemaker and in-room safe. For your convenience, we’re located right off I-94 and also offer a courtesy shuttle to and from The Henry Ford.
Comfort Suites - SOUTHGATE 18950 Northline Road Southgate, MI 48195 734.287.9200 comfortsuitessouthgate.com Beautiful Gold Award-winning all-suite hotel featuring luxury accommodations without the luxury price tag. Your comfort is assured, as we give you the room to spread out within all suites that include microwaves and refrigerators. Hotel features also include indoor swimming pool, deluxe continental breakfast and free high-speed Internet.
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Country Inn & Suites - Dearborn 24555 Michigan Avenue Dearborn, MI 48124 313.562.8900 countryinns.com/dearbornmi New hotel in Dearborn featuring comfortable spacious rooms, indoor heated pool, free hot Be Our Guest breakfast, fitness and business center and more than 140 HD channels and 20 HBO and eight Cinemax channels. Complimentary shuttle service to The Henry Ford.
The Dearborn Inn, A Marriott Hotel 20301 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 877.757.7103 dearborninnmarriott.com Enjoy the historic hotel built by Henry Ford in 1931. The stately inn offers 229 rooms and Colonial Home suites. Located only three blocks from The Henry Ford, this colonial retreat offers a setting reminiscent of an American inn, complete with the service and amenities you expect from Marriott. Shuttle to The Henry Ford based on availability.
Doubletree BY HILTON Detroit - Dearborn 5801 Southfield Service Drive Detroit, MI 48228 313.336.3340 dearborn.doubletree.com Distinctively designed hotel is conveniently located minutes from The Henry Ford. Enjoy the full-service features in our Great Room, excellent cuisine at Grille 39, state-of-the-art fitness facility, indoor pool and the signature Sweet Dreams beds. Consistently a Top 10-ranked hotel for overall guest satisfaction.
Hampton Inn - Detroit/Southgate 13555 Prechter Blvd Southgate, MI 48195 734.574.4000 detroitsouthgate.hamptoninn.com The new Hampton Inn Detroit/Southgate is centrally located in the heart of Southeast Michigan. Enjoy a spacious guest room or a larger Studio Suite featuring a fresh and clean Hampton bed, complimentary hot breakfast and Wi-Fi, refrigerator/microwave and indoor pool. Offering complimentary shuttle to The Henry Ford and local venues.
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Holiday Inn Southgate Banquet & Conference Center
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The Westin Book Cadillac
Downtown Detroit
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Comfort Inn & Suites - Dearborn
Dearborn
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Comfort Inn & Suites - Taylor
Dearborn (I-94 corridor)
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Dearborn
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Downriver (I-75 corridor)
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Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham
Detroit
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Holiday Inn Express & Suites - Allen Park
Dearborn (I-94 corridor)
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Marriott TownePlace Suites - Livonia
I-275 corridor
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Quality Inn & Suites DTW Metro Airport
Airport (I-94)
15
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Red Roof Inn - Detroit-Dearborn
Dearborn
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Red Roof Inn - Detroit Southwest-Taylor
Downriver (I-75 corridor)
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Bishop-Brighton Bed & Breakfast
Downriver
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York House Bed and Breakfast
Dearborn
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Camp Dearborn
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The Dearborn Inn puts you at a distinct advantage of being just three blocks from The Henry Ford. Built in 1931, this 23-acre colonial retreat offers a setting reminiscent of a classic American inn, with a AAA four-diamond rating and the level of service and amenities you expect from Marriott. For reservations and group bookings, call 313-271-2700 or visit DearbornInnMarriott.com THE DEARBORN INN, A MARRIOTT HOTEL 20301 OAKWOOD BOULEVARD DEARBORN, MICHIGAN 48124
Southgate, MI Your Comfort Is Assured… • Free Deluxe Hot Breakfast Buffet • Free Wi-Fi • Indoor Swimming Pool / Sauna / Steam Room • Large HDTVs with HD Channels • Luxury Spacious Suites with Choice of 1 King or 2 Queen Beds Henry Ford Package & Group Tour Support Available
734.287.9200 www.comfortsuitessouthgate.com 18950 Northline Rd., Southgate, MI 48195
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The Region’s Only Hotel With On-Site Renewable Energy
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At the Comfort Inn & Suites of Taylor, we specialize in package rates including tickets to Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. For your convenience, we offer a courtesy shuttle to and from The Henry Ford.
• Jacuzzi Suites and Two-Room Suites
• Free Bus Parking
• Free Hot Deluxe Breakfast
• Dry Cleaning Services
• Free Wireless Internet Access
• Guest Laundry Facility
• Conference Room
• Free Shuttle Service
• Indoor Heated Pool, Dry Sauna and Fitness Center • 42” Flat-Screen TVs & 105 Channels
• Each Room Contains Refrigerator, Ironing Set, Hair Dryer, Coffee and Coffee Maker, In-Room Safe
We’re centrally located within a few miles of The Henry Ford, downtown Detroit and Windsor, Canada.
WWW.COMFORTINN.COM • (PHONE) 313.292.6730 • (EMAIL) GM.MI189@CHOICEHOTELS.COM
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Stay PRODUCTIVE. Feel REFRESHED. • Free high-speed Internet access • Complimentary hot ‘Be Our Guest’ breakfast • Comfortable spacious rooms • Business center • Fitness center • And more!
24555 Michigan Avenue Dearborn, MI 48124 (313) 562-8900 • countryinns.com/dearbornmi
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Stop by and see our new Detroit/Southgate location for yourself. You’ll see why travelers love Hampton, with amenities like our hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and our clean and fresh Hampton bed. • Complimentary shuttle service to/from Henry Ford Museum and local venues • Easy access to businesses, Detroit attractions, malls, casinos, sports venues and restaurants • Indoor swimming pool and whirlpool Hampton Inn Detroit/Southgate Michigan 13555 Prechter Blvd. Southgate, Michigan 48195 734.574.4000 www.detroitsouthgate.hamptoninn.com
• Board room, meeting room and free business center • Free hot breakfast • Free Internet access in every room • Gym/fitness center use
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Hack. Invent. Classic history flourishes at this former site of the Fort Pontchartrain. Redesigned in 2013, the hotel captures the nostalgia of its history with a contemporary style that is a standout in downtown Detroit. • 367 guest rooms • All rooms feature floor-to-ceiling windows for beautiful views of the riverfront or cityscape • Complimentary Wi-Fi • 24-hour fitness center • Valet parking only • Next door to People Mover station • 15 minutes from The Henry Ford • Top of the Pontch for fine dining and Starbucks Cafe
TWO WASHINGTON BLVD DETROIT, MI 48226 313.965.0200 crowneplaza.com
Award-winning Victorian-style hotel located just 2 miles from The Henry Ford.
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3600 ENTERPRISE DRIVE, ALLEN PARK, MI. 48101 WWW.HIEXPRESSALLENPARK.COM 313.323.3500
CALL TODAY AND ASK ABOUT OUR GROUP RATES 9555 Middlebelt Road Romulus, MI 48174 734.946.1400 qualityinndetairport@yahoo.com
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5801 Southfield Freeway Detroit, MI 48228 Phone: 313-336-3340 Fax: 313-336-7037
The Perfect End to a Great Day The DoubleTree by Hilton Detroit-Dearborn is a distinctively designed hotel located minutes from The Henry Ford. Enjoy all of the full-service features we have to offer, starting with the excellent cuisine in Grille 39, the indoor pool and state-of-the-art fitness facility, and our 12-passenger shuttle bus that will take you to and from The Henry Ford, and finish your evening relaxing in one of our signature "Sweet Dreams" beds. Our hotel is consistently ranked in the top 10 for overall guest satisfaction. Packages for The Henry Ford and assistance with group tour planning are available.
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• 308 Guest Rooms and Suites • Indoor Swimming Pool and Fitness Center • TRIA Restaurant for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner • Discount Tickets available at the Front Desk • Close to Shopping and Area Restaurants.
FAIRLANE PLAZA, 300 TOWN CENTER DRIVE DEARBORN, MICHIGAN BEHENRY.COM | 313 441 2000
YOUR HENRY FORD EXPERIENCE STARTS AT COURTYARD Courtyard Detroit Dearborn helps you put more play in your stay. With our Bistro bar and media pods, newly renovated and tech enabled guest rooms, free WiFi, indoor pool and more, we’ll help you craft the ultimate getaway. Located just minutes from the Henry Ford and offering our very own Henry Ford Package, you’ll experience a weekend to remember. Book your room or package by visiting DearbornCourtyard.com.
Courtyard by Marriott Detroit Dearborn 5200 Mercury Drive Dearborn, MI 48126 (313) 271-1400 DearbornCourtyard.com
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Bright and spacious suites in the Detroit Livonia area. Two tickets to two attractions Free continental breakfast Free wireless high speed internet Fully equipped kitchens
Rates starting at $149 Book online: Marriott.com/DTWTL Use promotion code ARN
Detroit Livonia | 17450 Fox Drive Livonia, MI 48152 | 734-542-7400
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EXPERIENCE THE LOOK AND FEEL OF THE HOLIDAY INN SOUTHGATE
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Discover the newest Red Roof redesign in the country and the next generation of Red Roof design and style. • Large, flat-screen TVs • Free Wi-Fi, local calls, long-distance calls in the continental U.S. and up to 10 fax pages in the continental U.S. • #1 in Customer Satisfaction — online reviews, Market Metrix, 2010 & 2011 • Superior King Rooms with large workstation, in-room coffee, microwave and refrigerator • Free Redi-Set-Go breakfast • Children 17 and under stay free • Pets stay free Red Roof Detroit-Dearborn – #182 24130 Michigan Avenue • Dearborn, MI 48124 phone: 313.278.9732 For reservations visit redroof.com or call 800.RED.ROOF (800.733.7663)
S O U T H G AT E BANQUE T & CONFERENCE CENTER 17201 NORTHLINE RD., SOUTHGATE, MI 734-283-4400 • WWW.HISOUTHGATE.COM
n Area’s Largest Heated Indoor Hotel Pool and Whirlpool
n Award-Winning Charlie’s Chophouse
n Club Charlie’s Lounge With Big-Screen TVs and Live Entertainment on Weekends
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n Free Wi-Fi n Microwave, Refrigerator and FlatScreen TVs in Every Room
n Next Door to the YMCA With Splash Park From Memorial Day Through Labor Day
n 15 Minutes to The Henry Ford n Complimentary Shuttle Service Available
Paid Adult (Up to 4 Children)
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1700 General Motors Rd. Milford, MI, 48380 626 acres of rolling hills, trees and lakes that offer a wide range of amenities for outdoor activity.
Sleep well and dream away in a Westin Heavenly® Bed before you spend a day exploring at The Henry Ford.
n 20-, 30- and 50-amp RV campsites n 2 beaches and 3 stocked fishing lakes n Heated pool with lifeguards n Laundromats n Extensive 7-day recreation program for kids n Paddle boat rentals and canteen food service n 27-hole championship Mystic Creek Golf Course & Banquet Center n Adventure golf n Resort-style cabins, rustic cabins and tent rentals
To reserve your room, call 866-716-8104.
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Discover the newest Red Roof redesign in the country. • Large, flat-screen TVs • Free Wi-Fi, local calls, longdistance calls in the continental U.S. and up to 10 fax pages in the continental U.S. • #1 in Online Guest Reviews 2010, 2011, 2012 • Superior King Rooms with large workstation, in-room coffee, microwave and refrigerator • Free Red Roof coffee bar • Children 17 and under stay free • Pets stay free
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DETROIT GREENFIELD RV PARK 6680 Bunton Road Ypsilanti, MI 48197 PHONE 734.482.7722 FAX 734.544.5907
· Private spring-fed lake and scenic forest setting · Large private beach and lakeside trails · Excellent boating, fishing and swimming · Long pull-thrus and full hookups + 50 amp · Holiday weekend family events · Just 35 miles from Detroit attractions
Plan your trip and make reservations at www.detroitgreenfield.com
BIShOP - BRIghTON BED & BREaKFaST 2709 BIDDLE ST., WYANDOTTE, MI 48192
• Located in historic Wyandotte approximately ten miles from The Henry Ford® • Full gourmet breakfast each morning
Red Roof Detroit Southwest-Taylor – #189 21230 Eureka Road • Taylor, MI 48180 phone: 734.374.1150
• Three guest rooms – two are suites suitable for families of four to six
For reservations visit redroof.com or call 800.RED.ROOF (800.733.7663)
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• 30,000 Square Feet of Flexible Meeting Space • Event Services Include Large Conferences, Weddings, Small Business Meetings and Social Events • Complimentary Wi-Fi • Easy Access to Local Freeways, Airport, Detroit Metro Attractions • Complimentary Self-Parking
Ford Conference & Event Center 1151 Village Road • Dearborn, MI 48124 313-621-2900 • www.cec.ford.com Located directly across the street from Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
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“One of the country’s best museums...”
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Our 200 acres of innovation are a one-of-a-kind experience. An astonishing collection started by Henry Ford himself. People come here to see how it was, what it is — and where they can take it. If you’re thinking ahead, this is your kind of place. What are you waiting for? Gain perspective. Get inspired. Make history.
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With over 600 farm-fresh produce items delivered daily, plus 150,000 items in over 40 departments, you’ll find only fresh selection and quality products at Meijer. That’s because we believe in providing the best to families. After all, we know what it’s like to take care of a family – we are one.
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DISCOVER AN AMAZING LITTLE HOUSE OF MUSICAL INFLUENCE AND MORE AT EVERY TURN Detroit’s influence stands as strong as the sounds of the Motown Museum, which preserves the birthplace of a musical legacy that moved the world, and there are many more stories throughout The D. History and its makers are showcased at The Henry Ford. Culture and contributions are celebrated at the Arab American National Museum. From the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to Greektown, Mexicantown and Corktown, you’ll find worldwide wonders waiting around every corner. Discover Detroit, America’s great comeback city. View Allen’s whole story at meetdetroit.com/allen.
AMERICA’S GREAT COMEBACK CITY. Cars | Culture | Gaming | Music | Sports
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A LOOK BACK SARAH’S DOUGHNUT Just days before her 12th child is born, 43-year-old Michigan farmwife Sarah Faught makes doughnuts for her family. Sadly, Sarah dies soon after giving birth. Mourning her loss, the Faughts left behind decide to save, rather than eat, Sarah’s last batch as well as the cutter that formed it. It’s January 1890. For the next 122 years, Sarah’s descendants pass down the remaining doughnuts, cutter and story of their loved one. Food for fodder forever memorializing the enormity of a mother lost yet never forgotten.
DID YOU KNOW? / The story goes that the doughnut hole was introduced in the mid1800s by Capt. Hanson Gregory, a Dutch sailor who impaled one of his mother’s homemade doughnuts on a spoke of his boat’s steering wheel so he could better navigate during a storm.
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LET’S FIND MORE WAYS TO USE LESS FUEL. Today, we’re not only working to find more energy, we’re helping inspire ways to use less. That’s why for 30 years, the Shell Eco-marathon has been challenging schools and universities around the world to design, build and test ultra-energy efficient vehicles. In 2014, Mater Dei High School achieved 2,471 miles per gallon with their prototype vehicle, “Supermileage 2.” This spirit of innovation is spreading. Shell Eco-marathon Americas has a new home in Detroit, Michigan, an iconic American city whose history is rich in innovation and an ideal place to steer the world further toward sustainable energy for the future. shell.com/ecomarathon
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ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PLANE. Catch some Z’s when catching your next flight. Arriving ready is just one of the perks of flat-bed seats, Westin Heavenly® In-Flight Bedding, and everything else you’ll find throughout our slumber-inducing Delta One™ cabin. No wonder more people choose Delta than any other airline.
Official Airline of The Henry Ford.