NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – The Southern Meals and Beverage Museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Museum leaders hosted a press convention with birthday cake, espresso and champagne on Thursday, June 20, to debate how the museum is commemorating this milestone.
In response to a press launch, the museum revealed its first cookbook and plans to host a number of particular occasions and displays all year long to honor the anniversary.
The cookbook, titled “SoFAB Cookbook: Recipes from the Fashionable South,” written by museum founder Elizabeth Williams and Maddie Hayes, contains “recipes specific to every Southern state with recipes from cooks who really feel the connection to the house”. It can additionally embrace a foreword written by Dickie Brennan.
The discharge states that a number of the particular displays will embrace a espresso historical past exhibit and a tailgating historical past exhibit.
“The Southern Meals and Beverage Museum is a testomony to the area's scrumptious heritage, showcasing the flavors and tales that make Southern delicacies so distinctive and revered. “We’re excited for the subsequent 20 years of preserving and celebrating the soulful essence of Southern meals proper right here in certainly one of America’s nice culinary locations,” stated SoFAB CEO Constance “Connie” Jackson.
There may also be an occasion to have fun the 125th anniversary of Oysters Rockefeller and a gala.
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