The Southern Food & Beverage (SoFAB) Research Center is now open to the public on the second floor of the Nunez Library on Nunez Community College’s Chalmette campus.
The archive includes more than 40,000 culinary books, thousands of menus and pamphlets, and hundreds of archived artifacts.
The SoFAB collection and catalog can be viewed in person or online at both nunez.edu and SoFAB’s website, southernfood.org.
The opening ceremony included comments from Nunez Chancellor Dr. Tina Tinney, SoFAB President and CEO Brent Rosen, St. Bernard President Guy McInnis, and a couple of very special guests.
The partnership between SoFAB and Nunez creates a permanent home for the texts and artifacts that SoFAB Founder and curator Liz Williams has collected and had donated in her decades of culinary research.
Nunez not only provides a location in close proximity to the nation’s top culinary destination, New Orleans, but also a built-in user base in Nunez’s Culinary Arts and Entrepreneurship program.
While the SoFAB materials will certainly be a boon for Nunez’s Culinary students and faculty, it will provide endless resources to the community as the Research Center is open to the public.
