Craving some fresh history? Join us in investigating our region's food culture and traditions in the featured exhibit Flavors of Change: Food Stories from the Mid-Hudson Valley, 1680-1800.

Flavors of Change takes you on a bittersweet journey through the three culinary traditions that met in the 1600s and 1700s at Historic Huguenot Street. Explore how Indigenous Esopus people, newly arrived European settlers, and enslaved Africans sustained their lives and cultivated the land. Dig into the flavorful, unique ingredients that defined their worlds and reshaped the landscape for centuries to come. Learn about each culture's rich relationships with food, and how growing, gathering, and cooking food is a powerful preserver of shared cultural memory. You'll take home some new understandings of what you eat at your own table.

This exhibit can be seen Wednesdays through Sundays from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm in the DuBois Fort Center (81 Huguenot Street), starting Thursday, June 19, 2025.

The exhibit is free of charge.

Photo Credit: Katy Mae with Pics by Shining

“Flavors of Change” is sponsored by Krause’s Chocolates and the Hasbrouck Family Association.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.