Spuds on NPR

On New Year's Eve we donned our potato skins and did an interview with Melissa Block for All Things Considered on National Public Radio. Her producer called us in line with the United Nations' dubbing of 2008 as the International Year of the Potato.
For those of you who do not know our story, we started out in the food history biz focused on the powerful potato. Tom began The Potato Museum in 1975 as a classroom project for his students at the International School of Brussels in Belgium. It grew as word spread, its pioneering museum about a food effort turning up a few years later as part of two major exhibitions--the Smithsonian's Seeds of Change event for the Quincentenary and Canada's remarkable Amazing Potato exhibit at Ottawa's National Museum of Science and Technology.
The FOOD Museum On Line and this Blog is an offshoot of that venture. Listen below...

Comments

[nanceinnm]

Great job on NPR! So good to hear your voices here at home. The info you've collected about every aspect of potato life, death, and fancy simply astounds. We'd hoped the Peru deal was sealed...hope that it goes through. Let us hear from you. Bill misses Tom playing golf.

[Rich G]

I was a student at the International School of Brussels in the 70's and have fond memories of Tom's original potato museum. It was great to hear this segment on NPR over 30 years later.

[nick]

Just for potato.