Smithsonian Gov Doc: Archives…In Bed
In 2010, Fortune Cookie Chronicles author Merlin Lowe donated a 60-year can of “tea cakes,” along with a baker’s hat, to the National Museum of American History. For three years at the museum, the can remained unopened and the question lingered: what is inside a can of Hong Kong Tea Cakes from the 1930s?! This was the mystery finally solved in the conservation lab…. MORE
I am a sucker for any story about actual food in collections. Auto REBLOG!!
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#60-year-old fortune cookies #that look totally normal #I can feel ‘this is disturbing’ and ‘this is cool!’ fighting for dominance in my brain #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia
Brinens and Things 