 Hi, I'm Leon Miller, a curator with Tulane University Special Collections, a division of Tulane University Libraries. On November 11, 1935, the special drink of the day at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans was the Tulane Strawberry Brandy, Gin, and Sweet Vermouth. I'm not sure how good the Tulane cocktail would taste, well actually I'm having one right now and it's delicious. But I do know that preserving the food traditions of Louisiana is a special mission of special collections. We preserve cookbooks and dining guides, publications of Louisiana food trade groups, restaurant brochures, and papers of Louisiana chefs and food writers. We recently acquired more than 200 self-published cookbooks from Louisiana churches, schools and clubs, ranging from the Episcopal School of Acadiana to the Pat & Rouge Chapter of Sweet Adelines. If your organization has a cookbook, please help us preserve a copy. We would also like to preserve any Louisiana menus you might have. Special Collections has an extensive Louisiana menu collection that is freely available to everyone, online, via the Tulane Digital Library at digitallibrary.tulane.edu. And remember, there's always room for dessert.