Cook up a culinary quest through Minnesota history for a chance to win tasty prizes.
This cookbook is your guide to exploring MNHS historic sites and museums this summer in a new and delicious way. Each page highlights one of our locations and a recipe related to Minnesota history, but the recipe card itself is missing! To complete the pages, you’ll need to visit our sites and museums. Collect 8 recipe cards for a chance to earn a prize.
A Recipe for Adventure is the appetizer to a sumptuous feast coming this fall to the Minnesota History Center: a brand new special exhibit opening September 27th. Julia Child: A Recipe for Life is a one-of-a-kind, interactive traveling exhibition exploring the key ingredients that led to Julia's personal evolution and America's culinary revolution. While in Minnesota, it will include an exclusive section developed by the Minnesota Historical Society featuring culinary gems from our collections. From community cookbooks to Minnesota’s own culinary legends, you won’t want to miss this taste of history.
Keep your eyes on our Events Calendar beginning this fall for more ways to sink your teeth into Minnesota’s culinary past and present.
How to participate:
See the sites
Visit participating MNHS historic sites & museums during opening hours.
Complete the site’s Recipe for Adventure activity or puzzle to earn a unique recipe card. (You’ll find information about each activity at the front desk when you arrive.)
Win great prizes
Collect 8 different recipe cards to be entered to win prizes. Show your completed pages at a participating site to enter the prize drawing
Redemption
The last day to enter the prize drawing is October 31st. Recipe cards will remain available at sites during open hours while supplies last through the run of Julia Child: A Recipe for Life.
Coming Soon to the Minnesota History Center
Julia Child: A Recipe for Life explores the world of the iconic chef who changed the way America cooks. The exhibit highlights her passion for French cuisine, perseverance in a male-dominated field, and belief that cooking should be fun and accessible to all.
