Seven glasses of wine and the museum is sure to come alive, just like in that Ben Stiller movie that sucked way less than it should have.
Oh, asparagus: You look pretty, taste great, and make our urine smell weird. For a member of the lily family, that’s quite the resume.
And you, fellow omnivores, can pay your respects to this venerable veggie – known to have been cultivated at least as far back as 500 B.C. – on Saturday June 14, from 6:30 to 11 p.m. That’s when the Cleveland Museum of Natural History offers this year’s final “Natural History of Food” feast, a seven-course chowdown featuring music, wine, and lots, and lots of asparagus. …
This article appears in May 21-27, 2008.