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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:57 AM
Subject: [VSG] evaluating food

Has anyone done any evaluation of the use of food as an interpretive
medium?  "Using food to interpret museum collections and historic
buildings" is the topic of my MA Museum Studies dissertation, and I have
already found many museums and historic buildings which use food like
this.  Some of them have done fairly basic evaluation of the food events,
but I wonder if anyone has gone beyond "did you like the food/find it
interesting" to try to ascertain how food enables people to learn both
cognitively (e.g. what Romans ate) and affectively (a better understanding
of what it was like to be a Roman).

I have already found plenty of info about the general priniciples of
evaluation, but there doesn't seem to be much written about evaluating
affective learning.

Some of you may also have done evaluation on food in cafes and restaurants
which reflects the collections or period of the museum/property.  Any info
on this would be much appreciated too.

If any of you can help me on this, I would be very grateful!

Thank you in advance,

Nicola Bell

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