On View at The Historic New Orleans Collection
January 16–November 17, 2007
Tuesday–Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., except holidays
Free and open to the public

From the earliest interactions between Native Americans and European settlers to the multifaceted, multiethnic culinary customs of today, What’s Cooking in New Orleans?: Culinary Traditions of the Crescent City traces the unique and colorful art of Creole cooking.

 

What’s Cooking in New Orleans? serves as an appetizer to understanding the cuisine that defines the city. With an eclectic display of cookbooks, menus, photographs, and other objects spanning the 18th through mid-20th centuries, the display introduces patrons to the cultural, economic, and social factors that shaped New Orleans cuisine, primarily Creole cuisine.

 

To further entice visitors, What’s Cooking in New Orleans? also offers video clips, podcasts, an on-site recipe exchange, and weekly online recipes. Two documentaries, We Live to Eat: New Orleans’s Love Affair with Food and A Common Pot, Creole Cooking on the Cane River, both by New Orleans filmmaker Kevin McCaffery, are on view as part of the exhibition.

Download the What's Cooking in New Orleans? catalog. 3MB pdf format

In conjunction with the exhibition, a Culinary Lecture Series is underway.