Bookshelf: Nana’s Creole Italian Table

By: The Local Palate

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Coming of age in a cultural hub like New Orleans is sure to leave an impression on anyone, especially those interested in food. For Elizabeth Williams, founder of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, the rich heritage of her mother’s Sicilian family and the traditions of her father’s New Orleans roots set her on an exploration of culture and cuisine that has culminated, after 70 years, into a new New Orleans cookbook, Nana’s Creole Italian Table (LSU Press, 2022).

The book, says Williams, “gives a context for people who have any kind of heritage where their family were immigrants. They will be able to read it and feel that their experience is the same because I experienced grandparents who grew up in Sicily, but a mother who was born into New Orleans when there were so many Sicilians.”