These exhibits have been on display at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in the past. For more information about our current exhibits, please Exhibits page. For more information about past exhibits, please contact the museum directly.
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Lens on the Larder: The Foodways of Appalachia in Focus
Curated by Fred Sauceman, Senior Writer and Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, this exhibit explores the food of Southern Appalachia, including East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and Western North Carolina. Learn more about this exhibit here.
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IlluminEATing
From the artist, Meredith Beau:
“For more than 10,000 years, man has been able to cultivate food. We have gotten really, really good at it, to the point where the world population has eclipsed 7 billion. That couldn’t have happened without current technology. Here in the USA, we have found economies of scale unthinkable just a few decades ago. Our expertise has shaped not only how we in this country eat, but how and what the rest of the world eats… Within the home refrigerator is evidence of the multifaceted relationships that both individuals and society have with food. A peek behind these closed doors can provide a window into the structure, economics, ethnicity and health of the family.”
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The Boudin Trail
This travelling exhibit from the Southern Foodways Alliance examines the history of boudin and the various ways it is enjoyed today. The Southern Foodways Alliance’s latest documentary project, a traveling exhibit, profiles the ubiquitous and beloved Cajun fast food, boudin. SFA’s latest film To Live and Die in Avoyelles Parish, a celebration of the Louisiana boucherie tradition cochon de lait, will also be showing. The Boudin Trail travelling exhibit was produced by the Southern Foodways Alliance, a component of the Center of the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. It has made it’s way across Louisiana and is now stopping by New Orleans until the end of the year.
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Happy Hour: Cocktail Photography from Vanessa Bahmani
Vanessa’s cocktail photographs are a culmination of a two-year project photographing cocktails for a weekly cocktail column called “Happy Hour, ” posting every Wednesday on a popular blog called UmamiMart.com. “Happy Hour” is a collaboration with Payman Bahmani, who writes all the articles for the weekly column and is responsible for all the cocktail creations. Payman Bahmani is an NYC based mixologist, founder of Life’s A Cocktail, a cocktail consultant, and Vanessa’s husband. Visit her site to learn more and see her other photographs.
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Summer Sno-Balls in New Orleans
Snoballs are the classic symbol of the New Orleans summer. Sweet, brightly colored, and impossibly delicious, this icy treat has been helping Southerners cool off since the snoball machine was invented. The snoball is unique in the flavored ice world for the lightness and quality of the shaved ice as well as the enormous selection of flavors found at almost every snoball stand. With a stand or a shop on nearly every corner of New Orleans, the snoball takes an important place in the culinary scene of the city, which meant that SoFAB had to discuss them in a more in-depth approach for at least one summer. There were machines and artifacts from Hansen’s Sno-Bliz and the Southern Snow Company. Machines from Southern Snow and SnoWizard remain on display as part of our permanent collection.
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Mardi Gras Bead Mosaics
May 14-June 20, 2011
SoFAB welcomed the temporary display of the work of Rudolph Matas Elementary School students, who together with visiting artist Stephan Wanger and Arts Facilitator, Tama Distler, have created twelve Mardi Gras bead mosaics encompassing a body of work entitled, Taste of Louisiana. These works, depicting some of Louisiana’s most popular and beloved delicacies, were meticulously drawn and painted, and then encrusted in Mardi Gras beads as directed by local bead artist Mr. Stephan Wanger. Through this work, Matas students have learned about environmental concerns, recycling, Louisiana culture, and fine art history, principles, and techniques. This project was made possible in part by an Art and Culture in Schools grant from Target.
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Sustainable Agriculture and Gathering Nature’s Plants in Panama
October 1 – December 1, 2010
Designed by Southern University of New Orleans Anthropology professor Dr. Nina Muller-Schwarze, this exhibit focused on Panamanian foodways. It showcased artifacts, images, text and sounds depicting her research among a Panamanian peasant/indigenous group. The exhibit depicted the harvesting and agricultural cycle of this Panamanian group of subsistence agriculturalists; how they conceptualize land and harvests as kinship; their festivals and festival foods; an area to listen to soundscapes of this culture; and the threats to land rights this group is facing within the context of the nation of the Republic of Panama. The opening of this exhibit corresponded with SoFAB’s October 2010 Words in Food Symposium: Eating in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Basin. Exhibit sponsored by the Southern University of New Orleans.
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The Don Effect
September 14 – October 31, 2010
The Don Effect, an original dance theater piece by GRP, debuted in New Orleans at the Candle Factory, June 10-13, 2010. Through dance, theater, film, music and food, it explores the human desire to recreate the un-re-creatable: namely, choreographed dances and family recipes. Goat in the Road Productions continued their exploration of the intersection of food and memory with their multimedia exhibit in the museum.
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New Orleans con Sabor Latino
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Absinthe Visions: Photographs by Damian Hevia
- Clarity by Damian Hevia
July 7 – October 1, 2010
Damian Hevia’s photographs show the world of absinthe, from dreamy effects to perfect pours of green tinged alcohol, each giving us a new glimpse of the fabled drink.“My thirst for absinthe knowledge began with my artist-father’s stories of hanging with Hemingway in Havana’s heyday,” says Hevia. “It led me through the misinformation cloud and into the enlightenment of truth, taking me to Pontarlier, France and Val de Travers, Switzerland. This journey has allowed me to befriend some of the world’s most respected absintheteurs. Motivated by the rich history and imagery of absinthe, I have created a body of work that is ongoing. This exhibition is a distillation of these images.”
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Consider the Oyster
June 11 – November, 2010
Through our partnership with the New Orleans Oyster Festival that took place June 5-6 and the generous donations of Jim and Diane Gossen, we have been able to open a supplementary exhibit on oysters. The Gossen’s have allowed us to show their wonderful collection of oyster plates and old fashioned cans and jugs used for transporting oysters. Visit this exhibit and learn about the world of harvesting and enjoying this delicious and now precious creatures of the sea.
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The Hurricane Cocktail
May 14 – December 31, 2010
This exhibit explored the Hurricane cocktail, made famous by Pat O’Brien’s Bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, as well as Pat O’Brien, the man behind the bar. Artifacts generously provided by the author of In Pursuit of Pat O’Brien Tami Hotard.
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Are any of your exhibits available to travel? Eunice has an amazing demonstration kitchen in the Jean Lafitte National Park building. We could possibly even be some sort of satellite of your museum? We have even hosted a Smithsonian’s traveling exhibit complete with an opening night dinner at a local restaurant prepared by the staff and students from the John Fose program at NSU. Let’s get together! Charles Seale
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