Meredith Sayles Hughes and Tom Hughes are the founders of The Potato Museum and The Food Museum on Line at www.foodmuseum.com. The Potato Museum researches, collects, preserves, exhibits and explains the history and social significance of the world's most important vegetable, and brings artifacts and programs to audiences of all ages.

The Hugheses have been exploring food history since the mid-1970’s, when Tom founded The Potato Museum in Brussels, Belgium. Meredith and Tom have worked on two major exhibitions about food, one for the Smithsonian and one for the National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa, Ontario. Their latest exhibition,Spuds Unearthed!, is for the U.S.Botanic Garden in Washington, DC.

Author of several articles on food history, Meredith created the award-winning 10 book series, Plants We Eat, published by Lerner Publishing, Minneapolis. She also writes two museum blogs, and has been a workshop presenter at the International Association of Culinary Professionals Annual Conference. Tom did two national tours for Frito-Lay, appearing on radio and tv talk shows, both national and local, including Late Night with David Letterman, and doing presentations at assorted venues. Meredith and Tom have collaborated on a wide range of public programs, lectures, both here and abroad, workshops, and school presentations, as well as The Great Potato Book, Macmillan Publishing. Tom created The Potato Museum website, www.potatomuseum.com, in 2005.

The Hughes’ most recent book is a guide to the food–related museums/sites/and shrines of France, the mother country of the food-preoccupied. Published by Bunker Hill, Gastronomie! Food Museums and Heritage Sites of France spotlights the top French food history sites as well as mini food travel itineraries, and regional recipes.

A similar project on the food heritage sites of Florida, the US, and the world is now underway.