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Founded in 1998, the NY Food Museum is a not-for-profit institution dedicated to preserving the food supply and encouraging people to think about the food they eat through education and public information. Among the museum’s projects have been a free exhibition on the history of the Federal School Lunch program, the country’s first line of defense against poverty and malnutrition.

Working with other institutions and not-for-profit organizations, the museum presents collaborative exhibitions and speakers’ panels about the need to grow, harvest, purvey, process, distribute, cook and serve food to 8 million New Yorkers each day, and then to clean up after each of those meals.

Since 2000, Pryor Cashman has advised the museum in general corporate, commercial and other legal matters, including what has become perhaps the museum's most popular and eagerly anticipated annual event, The New York City International Pickle Day, as well as the museum’s efforts to restore a historic Oyster Barge in lower Manhattan.