Community Initiatives
Global Culinary Initiative
Green Tables
The LDEI Green Tables Initiative is a chapter-led program that was created to deepen the relationship between locally grown food at farms and gardens with school and community-food programs, restaurants and kitchen tables. Chapters that participate in Green Tables offer programs and events that unite communities with fresh, sustainable foods and foodways through cooking classes, demonstrations, tastings, community-gardening projects, farmers’ market programming and more.
Southern Food and Beverage Museum Culinary Library
The LDEI Collection is part of the Boyd Culinary and Hospitality Library of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum. It’s an important assembly of cookbooks, articles and other culinary works contributed by Dames and made available to students in the culinary and hospitality programs of multiple university programs including that of Tulane University. The Library and LDEI Collection are housed at the Nunez Community College Library in Chalmette, LA, just outside New Orleans. For more information, contact Dame Liz Williams at liz@southernfood.org