The Southern Food and Beverage Museum is a nonprofit living history organization dedicated to the discovery, understanding and celebration of the food, drink and the related culture of the South. We opened our doors on June 7, 2008 at the Riverwalk Marketplace in New Orleans, Louisiana. Our first exhibit on the history and influence of New Orleans beverages opened in June 2004 at a temporary location in New Orleans. Our goal in opening the temporary space was to give the public a taste of what we hoped to create as we built support and solicited donations for a permanent home. While based in New Orleans, the Museum examines and celebrates all the cultures that have come together through the centuries to create the South