Red Beans and Rice-ly Yours: Recipes from New Orleans that Louis Armstrong Loved: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A cookbook booklet printed by the Southern Food & Beverage Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. The booklet contains a collection of recipes of foods and dishes associated with New Orleans, including red beans and rice, po boy sandwiches, gumbo, jambalaya, etc. The booklet is is twenty-five (25) pages, as well as printed front and back covers. The ink is a brown-red color, and there is an illustration of red beans at the bottom corner of each page.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2008
• Written by: Christopher Blake, American, died 2014
• Published by: Southern Food & Beverage Museum, American, founded 2008
• Subject of: Louis Armstrong, American, 1901 - 1971
• Type: cookbooks
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: printing ink on paper, metal
• Dimensions: H x W x D (closed): 11 × 5 1/2 × 1/8 in. (27.9 × 14 × 0.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (open): 11 × 11 × 1/8 in. (27.9 × 27.9 × 0.3 cm)
• Place made: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Cooking and dining
• Topic: Foodways
• Topic: Musicians
• Object number: 2014.82.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Deborah L. Mack
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 2008 Southern Food & Beverage Museum Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.