Insatiable City: Book Talk & Signing with Theresa McCulla
Schedule
Thu Oct 30 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Southern Food and Beverage Museum & Museum of the American Cocktail, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, New Orleans, LA, USA | New Orleans, LA
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Join us at the Southern Food & Beverage Museum for an evening celebrating the stories, history, and flavors that define New Orleans.About this Event
Join us at the Southern Food & Beverage Museum for an evening celebrating the stories, history, and flavors that define New Orleans. Historian and curator Theresa McCulla will discuss her new book, Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans, in conversation with Liz Williams, founder of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum.
About the Book
Insatiable City is a cultural history of New Orleans and its people told through the lens of food. It explores how the sensory pleasures of eating and drinking in the Crescent City are rooted in histories of both creativity and violence—and how Black New Orleanians, across generations, have used food and food work to build autonomy, belonging, and joy for themselves and their communities.
Named a Best Book of 2024 by Smithsonian Magazine and nominated for a 2025 James Beard Book Award, Insatiable City offers a profound, beautifully written look at the power of food in shaping identity and history.
About the Author
Theresa McCulla is a curator and historian whose work investigates how Americans use material and visual culture to understand race, ethnicity, and gender—particularly through food and drink. She is currently the Curator at Mars, Incorporated, where she cares for the history of beloved brands like M&M’s, Snickers, and Skittles. Previously, she was the Curator of Beer History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Her writing has been recognized by the James Beard Foundation and the North American Guild of Beer Writers.
Learn more at www.theresamcculla.com
Follow her on Instagram: @theresamccu
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Southern Food and Beverage Museum & Museum of the American Cocktail, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, New Orleans, LA, USA, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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