Arlington's Burnt Food Museum

Even if you're no Julia Child, you're probably at least endowed with this home-ec essential: Try to keep from burning the food. But the Arlington-based Burnt Food Museum smites this fundamental culinary canon: Its extensive, prestigious, decades-old collection honors cooking's most spectacular catastrophes. In its gallery, singed, scalded and seared food is an art of accident, a curious memento to look at and tell stories about. Curator Deborah Henson-Conant, a Grammy-nominated harpist, said: 'People think burnt food is a negative thing. But it's really important, before you claim failure, to stop and take a look at what you've done and find the beauty in it.' You can see more from the museum at www.burntfoodmuseum.com Read the full story
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Even if you're no Julia Child, you're probably at least endowed with this home-ec essential: Try to keep from burning the food.

But the Arlington-based Burnt Food Museum smites this fundamental culinary canon: Its extensive, prestigious, decades-old collection honors cooking's most spectacular catastrophes.

In its gallery, singed, scalded and seared food is an art of accident, a curious memento to look at and tell stories about.

Curator Deborah Henson-Conant, a Grammy-nominated harpist, said: "People think burnt food is a negative thing. But it's really important, before you claim failure, to stop and take a look at what you've done and find the beauty in it."

You can see more from the museum at www.burntfoodmuseum.com

Read the full story