Storytelling and more planned for SoFAB this weekend

There’s a lot going on this Saturday at the Southern Food and Beverage (SoFAB) Culinary Library and Archive in New Orleans, including food-related story time and a cooking class for kids, and a roving bus workshop on fermenting for adults.

SoFAB is an award-winning museum dedicated to southern food and culinary culture, and it is in the process of moving from the Riverwalk to a permanent location on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. Exhibits are currently closed, but SoFAB continues to offer engaging workshops.

At 10 a.m., join Nancy Wilson, founder of Mam Papaul’s Food Products and a former teacher, for the new Kids Menu Series: Storytelling at the SoFAB Culinary Library. She will read swine-centric tales like The Three Little Pigs, Les Trois Cochon, Pig Poetry and The Wonderful World of Jillian Jiggs. Together kids and adults will then make bacon and cheese grits. The program is recommended for children ages three to seven.

At 1 p.m., SoFAB and Edible New Orleans will present a workshop on a bus by Tara Whitsitt of Fermentation on Wheels. She’ll discuss starter cultures, including sourdough starter, kefir and kombucha. Attendees may bring cultures of their own for exchange and discussion as well as bring an empty jar and take a culture home from the workshop. Whitsitt will also teach and prepare a wild ferment with seasonal ingredients.

For more information on the event, click here. —Maggie Heyn Richardson