Food. We all eat it and need it to survive, but how much do we know about it? A visit to The American Museum of Natural History's newest exhibit showed me I don't know all that much about food.
Here's what I learned >
The American Museum of Natural History's newest exhibit, which opened over the weekend, celebrates global food — the culture, history and technology of producing and eating food.
The Our Global Kitchen exhibition will run from November 17 to August 11, 2013. I got to tour the exhibit before it opened, and learned a ton of crazy stuff about food. Here are some of the interesting things about what you put in your mouth that you might not have known.
One record-setting chicken laid 364 eggs in one year. Before being domesticated, chickens only produced about a dozen eggs a year.
The biggest strawberry ever weighed about half a pound.
Broccoli, Brussels sprouts and Kale are all the same species of plant, the wild cabbage Brassica Oleracea.
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