The Goddess of Faux Food
Sandy Levins' creations add life to historic displays in museums throughout the nation.
Sandy Levins easily concedes she doesn’t like to cook. But she can turn out an everlasting supply of culinary specialties. Just don’t eat them, any of them. Levins, known to many local history buffs for her volunteer post as president of the Camden County Historical Society, manufactures faux food. Not bagels or muffins or even sushi. She creates historically precise faux food that is displayed in museums across the country, including Mount Vernon in Virginia and George Washington’s White House in the Germantown neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia, Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts, and Telfair Historic Museum in Savannah, GA. She’s currently working in her Redman Avenue home in Haddonfield on stocking the open kitchen in one of the …
