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A site-specific gumbo
The best gumbo I ever ate was served in Houma and made with poule d'eau ('pool doo'), a small coot (which goes by the name of marsh duck in Louisiana) that feasts on aquatic vegetation, bugs, small eggs and invertebrates such as shrimp and crawfish. During
How to cook for a catfish
The locals eat a lot of Vienna sausages around here, don't they? I asked the counter staff at a little general store in Henderson, Louisiana. There were shelves and shelves of these tiny canned hot dog sausages and yet more unpacked flats out back. Cher, they're
Scones v Biscuits
I don't want you to miss this!
Here's a super-short, spur-of-the-moment post about a news story published just a few hours ago. Abbas Asaria's report on the servilletas of the Iberian Peninsula and the man collecting them is a tiny joy in defiance of the relentlessly awful news cycle.