It is such a pleasure to have a reason to look through old cookbooks in order to write this column. At the Southern Food & Beverage Museum (SoFAB) we recently mounted a new exhibit about how important the Port of New Orleans has been in the coffee trade during 4 different centuries. In the 1038 book, Plantation Cookery of Old Louisiana, by Eleanore Ott of Fair Oaks Plantation of Mt. Hermon,...