egarding the request about food exhibitions/programs in museums, contact Shirley Cherkasky at the National Museum of American History. She's done numerous programs related to food over the years, including: Cuisines and Culture, Good as Gold: Foods the Americas Gave the World and probably the shellfish one recently mentioned. Call 202-357-2124 and ask to be transfered. Also, you may want to check with the Office of Folklife Programs, both at the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress. The SI folk festival always deals in someway with foodways. Bon apetite!