At Crayfish Master, Chang and Chinese food scholar Fuchsia Dunlop eat stir-fried crawfish with chili, crawfish with Szechuan peppercorns, and crawfish with garlic.
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But when exactly did Vietnamese-owned Cajun crawfish eateries become Vietnamese-Cajun crawfish eateries?
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"I've always had a passion for crawfish," said Madison Frederick, this year's Miss Crawfish.
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"Vietnamese crawfish came about due to Houston's proximity to Louisiana and crawfish farms," says Pham.
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And as Mai Pham points out, some of the best grub at these restaurants go beyond crawfish: Houston's LA Crawfish franchise throws crawfish right into the pho, while another local favorite, Wild Cajun, ups the ante with crawfish eggrolls and a super-traditional cua rang me, or tamarind crab.
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Hot N Juicy Crawfish: Hot N' Juicy Crawfish is the kind of restaurant that caters to people who believe fun and messiness go hand-in-hand.
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Like crawfish in a pot of water, though, the pressure intensifies and those crawfish go scrambling for purchase, clambering over one another to escape that pot.
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Miss Ponchatoula Strawberry can hold forth on how crops were covered in the days before insecticide; Miss Breaux Bridge Crawfish can differentiate a male crawfish from a female.
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The Crawfish Processors Alliance, a coalition of crawfish processing businesses, hired The Picard Group to work on seafood industry regulations, labor-related issues, hiring practices and enforcement and compliance with trade regulations.
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The crawfish will become bright red and tails will curl.
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Then pour the crawfish onto the table and belly up.
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Sachs hasn't decided what will live on Europa yet. Crawfish?
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You'll mix this with the cooked crawfish before you serve them.
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In coastal areas, crawfish and oyster-eating competitions were more common.
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It operates during crawfish season, typically early January to late May.
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You can't leave Houston without trying some crawfish from BB's Cafe.
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Crawfish étouffée with buttery sauce, and rich bananas Foster for dessert.
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Hot pepper ignites many of the dishes, like Jefferson Parish Gator, spicy blackened alligator tail with a habanero pineapple hot sauce; and Billy Carter's crawfish, named for the spicy peanut honey sauce that coats the crawfish tails.
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Add your crawfish to the water and cook 7 to 8 minutes.
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I'm a little jealous, but they promise to save me some crawfish.
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We split the Creole crab cakes, crawfish étouffée, and chicken banh mi.
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Fragrant and steaming, the crawfish are served whole and dusted with spice.
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And the "Swamp Fries" dish puts a spooky twist on crawfish étouffé.
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According to this Louisiana law, stealing someone else's crawfish is strictly outlawed.
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There are plates of macaroni and cheese, BBQ crawfish, and chicken parmesan.
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The success story of Vietnamese-Cajun crawfish certainly speaks to that future.
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I'd moved to the city a few weeks before said crawfish incident.
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Mix in crawfish or crab and cook for about 5 minutes on low.
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Meche displays a crawfish from one of his traps on March 217, 1633.
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Children 'taught to run to police for help' In Mamou, farmers harvest crawfish.
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In Louisiana, taking someone else's crawfish could land you in the big house.
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"When you suck the head, that's the fat of the crawfish," she said.
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This will be your super sauce to serve along with the boiled crawfish. 29.
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Salmon, tuna, flounder, crawfish, sardines, cod and scallops are included in the "best" choices.
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The brine comes from smoked fish and crawfish powder, the fervor from Scotch bonnets.
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"We season water; we don't season crawfish," he tells me in his deep drawl.
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Ms. Frederick had to learn the difference between Red Swamp and White River crawfish.
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" Besides, he added, he missed the "crawfish and crabs and gumbo, and Cajun music.
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The boiled crawfish are cooked in water seasoned with both cayenne and what Mr. Arceneaux describes as a commercial Chinese pepper mix, which leaves them faintly sharp but not too spicy; a similar blend is used on the crunchy, cleanly fried crawfish tails.
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It's crawfish season here in Texas, so we order a huge bucket for the table.
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Crawfish, sometimes called mud bugs, were pretty much a Cajun victual until the early 1980s.
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In fact, those earlier Vietnamese-owned crawfish shops in New Orleans have stayed stubbornly true to the Cajun blueprint, while in Houston and Los Angeles, the de facto crawfish preparation is the Vietnamese one, a divergence discussed in the Gulf Coast episode of Ugly Delicious.
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Ms. Frederick, who was wearing a red dress and bejeweled crawfish tiara (the animal's sparkly legs were splayed out as if it had been recently boiled), was already dreading having to give up her crown at the next crawfish pageant in Breaux Bridge in April.
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Popeyes called it the chain's biggest launch since 1989, when it introduced crawfish to its menu.
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According to 2013 data, the crawfish industry includes more than 173,250 farms and thousands more workers.
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A giant red crawfish painted on the door of a low, unprepossessing barn marks the spot.
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To her arepas and empanadas Wanda added crawfish, thanks to her love for the local seafood.
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During the third episode, Patty's safe place is a crawfish eating competition, because of course it is.
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That field was once fertile swampland, where I'm sure the raccoon feasted on crawfish, earthworms, and muskrats.
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And the burdock, credited as "crawfish" on the quotation-mark-happy menu, is believable in the role.
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In order to even appeal to the sorority, I needed to know my way around a crawfish.
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He was also involved in a case of shoplifting involving $32.72 worth of crawfish and crab legs.
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Make sure crawfish are fully covered with water and give them a stir and let sit 28 minutes.
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Barn owls mostly eat mice or voles, though occasionally their pellets will contain even weirder things, like crawfish.
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For an extremely hungry dad or an extremely hungry crowd, the crawfish boil is the way to go.
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Jeremiah spearheads whipping up a low country boil complete with corn, crawfish, potatoes and sausage, shrimp and crab.
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Customizability is a defining trait of Vietnamese cooking, and eating (hello, phở condiments) and crawfish is no different.
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And a business meeting is just as likely to be at a crawfish boil as in a boardroom.
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As talk turns back to those crawfish, the Houstonians gathered around the kitchen get a little misty-eyed.
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Add in the reserved shrimp, the crawfish, cream, and a few dashes of hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce.
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He loved "Easter Crawfish boils and New Year's eve fireworks," and, of course, "going to the Saints game."
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Like, once again, it&aposs like...I mean, people in the States who go to, like, seafood boils or crawfish boils, like, that whole idea of eating fresh seafood with your hands, like, that&aposll be a familiar thing for most people, even if it&aposs snails and not crawfish.
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The seasoning is added after boiling, which keeps the flavor of the crawfish "really clean," says Chef Trong Nguyen.
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Plaintiffs include the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper group, Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, Gulf Restoration Network, Waterkeeper Alliance and Sierra Club.
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You can also add sausage, potatoes, and corn on the cob to your meal for a classic crawfish boil.
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Kim was shocked to find a lobster -- most likely crawfish -- near her home in Hidden Hills earlier this week.
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His stocks of shrimp, crab, crawfish, alligator, lobster, mahi mahi and tuna were worth thousands of dollars, he said.
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Grilling might be the obvious choice for the Fourth, but why not buck tradition with a crawfish boil instead?
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As a native Scandinavian I know it is customary to begin with cold fish: Crawfish, shrimp and smoked salmon.
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TMZ Sports has learned ... Mayweather and his security team hit up Hot N Juicy Crawfish in Vegas on Sunday afternoon.
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Britney Spears celebrated brother Bryan Spears' birthday this weekend with a lot of family members and a lot of crawfish.
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Start with the crawfish rangoons and the woodsy Swallow Cloud soup, and finish with the Louisiana-Style Kung Pao Pastrami.
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One such innovation—her take on the now-classic Viet-Cajun crawfish boil—inadvertently landed her in the global spotlight.
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The restaurant will feature classics like grilled oysters, crawfish and corn beignets and trout amandine along with contemporary blackened foie gras.
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On Monday, the 27-year-old Teen Mom star shared two photos of Eason's birthday festivities, which included a crawfish boil.
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Decades of pipeline development have changed the waterflow in the basin, creating stagnant areas unfavorable for local wildlife, such as crawfish.
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You might consider bison pot roast with hominy on the weekend, or a crawfish and shrimp pot with spiced sweet potatoes.
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Faux crawfish, ersatz shrimp: They're less a matter of alchemy and transfiguration than sleight of hand in a circle of sawdust.
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St. Landry Parish is a rural area studded with crawfish ponds and bayous in the heart of Cajun and Creole country.
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The four of us went to lunch in a small village on a river where the locals sell shrimp and crawfish.
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In addition to cereal and pastries, guests can order such delights as crawfish and rapini benedict or ham and gruyere omelette.
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The path would ram right through our Atchafalaya Basin, a swamp that is a national treasure and a source of crawfish.
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Mr. Knott grew up harvesting the crawfish from his father's farm, and now hosts boils at the brewery during the season.
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Somewhere along the westward road from Louisiana to California, Vietnamese cooks began tinkering with the time-honored recipe: rather than simply boiling the crawfish in Cajun spices, they add a step of immediately cooling boiled crawfish and then tossing the mudbugs in a butter-based sauce that may also include garlic, onions, peppers, orange wedges, and lemongrass.
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The South's relationship with college ball can be magical, generous, and family-oriented—have you ever been to an LSU crawfish boil?
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" My guilty pleasure food, even when I'm prepping for my Piece of Me performances, is…"Crawfish because it reminds me of home.
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"I can make you gumbo and jambalaya, and do your etouffees and of course boiled shrimp and crawfish, fried oysters," she said.
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Its décor revolves around an admirable collection of neon signs donated by beer salesmen; small wire crawfish traps hang from wooden beams.
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INSIDER's Kevin Priolo and Herrine Ro see how the restaurant's dishes, including stuffed avocado, "chicken" and pancakes, and BBQ "crawfish" are made.
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Inspired, I went back another night, this time mostly eschewing conversation with my dining companions for a focussed regimen of crawfish domination.
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The ex was supremely offended by my nonchalant post-crawfish behavior, as if I had violated some kind of seafood samurai code.
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"Coach Nagata inspired me," Darrel, now retired at 66, told me recently over a long lunch and dinner of shrimp and crawfish.
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Understandably, classic Louisiana cuisine is a major element of the festival — vendors feature jambalaya and étouffée, boudin and beignets, catfish and crawfish.
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I spoke to a franchisee who said the best he could remember was 703–20% on a crawfish deal in the '90s.
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Then we order and share two meals: poached eggs with hollandaise over a fried green tomato and creamed spinach and crawfish scrambled eggs.
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The only source of contention is the use of the word "crayfish" rather than "crawfish," but it's nothing an IKEA buffet can't fix.
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The family is having a good ol' time at the crawfish boil, except for Charley, who's off to herself until Remy joins her.
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Environmentalists and local fisherman say so-called spoil banks created during pipeline dredging disrupt natural water flow in the basin and suffocate crawfish.
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"One one of my favorite dishes at Crawfish & Noodle is turkey necks slow cooked with hot sauce, Worcestershire and fish sauce," says Shepherd.
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Later, Mr. Thompson started Feed the Future Forward, which has hosted crawfish boils and charity golf tournaments to raise money for lunch debt.
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On most days, we'd walk to a nearby bayou and catch baby alligators for fun and fill up coolers with crawfish for dinner.
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There are the first fat crawfish, a blush of pink on the swamp maples and Mardi Gras at the end of the month.
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Together the group has constructed guitars, state banks, a memorial to breast cancer, turtles, crawfish, and a pelican -- the state bird of Louisiana.
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There followed a procession of visiting queens: Miss Cajun Hot Sauce Queen, Miss Creole Gumbo Queen, Miss Crawfish Queen, Miss Gonzales Jambalaya Queen.
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But when faced with what appears to be a half-eaten crawfish on her plate, Emanuel Montoya's little sister was scared for life.
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My friend Rasheed and I are both fathers, grew up watching Saved by the Bell and 1990s professional wrestling, and once boiled crawfish together.
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The guests then headed back into the venue's courtyard for cocktails, followed by a traditional Cajun dishes including shrimp creole, gumbo and crawfish bread.
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They were all dumped in crawfish ponds, or they were dumped in a canal, or they were dumped by the side of a road.
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Meche can sees the impact in the crawfish traps he pulls up from the bayou daily during the season, from February to early summer.
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She recalls: One of the hardest jobs I ever had was trekking crawfish, which I had to do to pay my grad-school tuition.
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During crawfish season, December to June, Mr. Levi prepares a Louisiana boil, using cayenne pepper, celery, garlic and some secret spices she won't reveal.
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Less traumatic condiments include a sauce simply called "pepper," a small eruption of Scotch bonnets tempered with palm oil, smoked fish and crawfish powder.
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Over time, their descendants have begun to experiment and introduce new ideas, from Cajun crawfish to brisket bánh mì (and even a phở-rrito).
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A knockout bayou swordfish, snowy white and topped with a crawfish hollandaise, was set over dirty rice with andouille sausage, smoked chicken and scallions.
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Crawfish hush puppies, Memphis-style baby back ribs, Carolina pulled pork and fried catfish are some stops along this place's tour of the South.
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We reject the argument about a safe amount of oil, for how much oil do you want in your water or in your crawfish.
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From very messy boiled crawfish to classy crudo to market-price crabs served on newspaper, there are a lot of different ways to enjoy seafood.
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Encourage the brood to live like locals and eschew the comfort of chicken parm in favor of a sandwich laden with crawfish, catfish or oysters.
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Crawfish, duck and smoked andouille sausages (there are also vegetarian and fish "dog" options) are smothered in homemade fixings like Creole mustard and sweet relish.
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This month, Vietnamese crawfish gets prime airtime in a dedicated Gulf Coast episode of celebrity chef David Chang's glossy, just-released Netflix series Ugly Delicious.
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On the other hand, those friendships are already on the rocks over my newspaper's insistence on calling the crustacean in question crayfish, rather than crawfish.
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By happenstance, Orgeron's ascendance comes amid an explosion in south Louisiana of French immersion schools, which have popped up like mud chimneys built by crawfish.
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But arguments aside, it's time to celebrate: Hollywood is back in town, and the family is planning a neighborhood-wide crawfish boil to welcome him back.
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By the early 2000s, Vietnamese-owned crawfish joints began popping up all over Houston's Chinatown district, and through immigrant networks, spread to Los Angeles' Little Saigon.
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Through the étouffées and gumbos, doberge cake and bread pudding, char-grilled and fried oysters, I'd always return to the crawfish as a lighthouse of sorts.
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Our specialty is Italian, so we have things like the Ti-Na-Na, a special pizza with boudin sausage, along with a crawfish étouffée grits dish.
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However, Louisiana as a whole also has plenty of fun date ideas like visiting a crawfish farm or catching a show at the Strand Theater in Shreveport.
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Many Houstonians are seriously passionate about crawfish and many locals like myself love ordering it from BB's Cafe because of its classic take on the popular dish.
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Reese Witherspoon did farm to table the New Orleans way -- getting her hands dirty, going elbow deep in crawfish ... then washing it down with a good drink.
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The rest of the world is waking up to the multicultural reality of the New South: Korean-Southern fried chicken, Vietnamese-Cajun crawfish, tacos stuffed with barbecue.
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On Sunday, March 219, many New Orleanians were throwing crawfish boils, catering to Bourbon Street's tourists, and grumbling over the cancellation of the St. Patrick's Day parade.
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There, he dances to Zydeco music, feasts on a crawfish boil, and learns about the history of Mardi Gras, which stretches back to the French Middle Ages.
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The school, opened in 1980, offers daily hands on classes where guests prepare and eat authentic Louisiana meals and dishes, like crawfish etouffee, shrimp creole and pralines.
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The surf concierge at the Westin Los Angeles Airport gives surfing lessons, while a crawfish concierge offers peeling assistance during events at the Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans.
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It's not the lifetime contract Joe Burrow called for in his Heisman acceptance speech ... but THINK OF ALL THE CRAWFISH YOU CAN BUY WITH THAT KINDA MONEY!!!!
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We were making Cajun food in the parking lot in New Jersey, frying beignets and making gumbo, serving crawfish, making new friends through food—all in enemy territory.
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In an email he sent entitled "new stomach is a powerhouse," he described a gluttonous diet: chicken fried steak, beignets, and a po' boy with a crawfish reduction.
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But she needed emergency surgery to remove her appendix, and then suffered severe burns on her arm when a pot of boiling water overturned at a crawfish festival.
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Photograph by Dolly Faibyshev for The New Yorker Ordering crawfish as a "combo," jumbled with sweet-fleshed snow-crab legs or head-on shrimp, further ups the ante.
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There was crawfish boil chicharrón in a newspaper cup, earthy chapati — small, flat disks served with cucumbers and labne — and a $2475 rosemary cocktail of fire and acid.
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She gave Christmas gifts to the poorest neighbors and mentored the most difficult kids in school; she was a joyful presence at bonfires, creek parties, and crawfish boils.
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At Trong Nguyen's Crawfish & Noodle, the mudbugs come cooked in fancy French butter and freshly-chopped garlic, while Cajun Kitchen offers a Thai basil version alongside the standards.
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And it took me years to figure out how to peel and eat crawfish (though if you ask certain people, they'll tell you I'm still terrible at it).
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Her version of the Vietnamese-Cajun crawfish boil, made using fresh Vietnamese river prawns, earned her cameos on Phil Rosenthal's Somebody Feed Phil and David Chang's Ugly Delicious.
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Over fried shrimp and crawfish at a seafood shack on the edge of downtown, they compared notes on how to navigate roads that are again clogged with traffic.
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They ranged in age from 17 to 30, were Black and white, and were connected by a thriving crack trade set amid the quiet rice and crawfish farms.
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Tucked away in a back room, the gregarious sales reps kibitzed noisily, slurping crawfish étouffée as Weinstein, seated at the head of a long table, examined his battalion.
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It ends with the annual Burning Crawfish Festival, planned for June this year, in which a colossal papier-mâché crustacean is set aflame as attendees drink Saison D'Écrevisses.
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Then a platter of them is served as an informal family meal — sort of like a plate of ribs or a crawfish boil — to be eaten by hand.
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Spears, 34, posted photos Saturday on Instagram from the festivities, where she gathered with many of her relatives – all wearing matching "Spears annual crawfish boil" T-shirts, of course.
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The Burketts&apos 15-year-old son Keenan and 12-year-old daughter Josilyn take their brother Mastin to look for crawfish in the creek behind their new home.
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The man was enjoying a private crawfish party at the Skansen Aquarium in Stockholm on Tuesday when the crocodile suddenly bit him, BBC News and The Local Sweden reported.
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Husband buys beer and food tokens and saved some crawfish for me, which I completely forget how to break open and proceed to get juice all over the place.
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This year has been a great crawfish harvesting season, owing to the exceptionally wet and mild winter, according to the owners, Anthony Arceneaux, 54, and his wife, Jennifer, 49.
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However, if one was to steal more than $1,500 worth of crawfish, the offender could serve up to 10 years in prison or pay up to $3,000 in fines.
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Dredged in crushed cumin, fennel, and chili, it needs no further seasoning—but, if you felt like dunking it in your crawfish broth, you wouldn't be the only one.
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The result is a succulent inside of crawfish meat and broth-like sauce amplified in flavor by the chunks of bright seasonings and mouth-searing spices encasing the shell.
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Houston's Vietnamese community has been making its own riff on Cajun crawfish for years by simmering the freshwater crustaceans in minimally seasoned water, then dousing them in garlic butter.
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Grab a seat on the upper deck under the wisteria, and try the Low Country linguine with sautéed crawfish and mushrooms ($13) or seafood ravioli with dill sauce ($103).
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My group of four was escorted to a table next to a hearty threesome who were staring down a huge five-pound platter of boiled crawfish in the shell ($27.99).
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Among the time-tested delicacies are pheasant, quail and andouille gumbo, crunchy fried cracklins, creamy Crawfish Monica and the cochon de lait po-boy, with its tender pork and crisp coleslaw.
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That beer, whose name means crawfish season, is fruity, spicy, fizzy, dry and refreshing; it's also a joke for beer geeks, who know that a saison is a French-Belgian style.
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But the ladies don't have time to daydream over bank-breaking real estate opportunities; there's a crawfish boil going down, and no one wants to slow the lemon-squeezing, shell-cracking glory.
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Dateline 12 Photos View Slide Show ' RAYNE, La. — It is early April in southwest Louisiana, and we are trundling along sumpy dirt roads flanked by muddy corrugated fields where the crawfish dwell.
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Mr. Arceneaux takes great pride in his "purged" crawfish, which undergo a 36- to 48-hour cleansing process that causes them to expel the bitter-tasting waste material in their gastrointestinal tracts.
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Regardless of where it started, the kind of thoughtful adaptation that spawned Vietnamese crawfish is a far cry from the opportunistic, often poorly-executed "Asian fusion" cuisine that we love to hate.
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Mr. Pace's menu has expanded to include mac 'n' cheese rich from a roux spiked with Crystal hot sauce (first bottled on Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans) and larded with crawfish tails.
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In Lake Okeechobee, at the northern boundary of the Everglades, algae blooms had become so stifling that huge groups of crawfish and snails crawled out of the water in search of oxygen.
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The law states that if the theft or amount of crawfish taken amounts to less than $500, you will be not be imprisoned for more than 6 months or fined more than $500.
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Batali and his co-author, Jim Webster, have chosen recipes with strong regional identities — crawfish pie, tortilla soup, Kentucky hot browns — and presented them in plain-spoken versions capable of honoring each tradition.
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Last month, the James Beard Awards—those so-called "Oscars of the Food World"—recognized the dish's existence with a Best Chef semifinalist nod for Trong Nguyen of Houston Chinatown mainstay Crawfish & Noodles.
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"They have been able to get their customers to think of their beers whenever they are sitting down to a meal like a crawfish boil, which is so important here," Mr. Girouard said.
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Crawfish—also known as crayfish—is a huge part of Southern cooking, and due to the introduction of American signal crayfish to British waters in the 1970s, there's now an abundance over here too.
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Wahlström explained to The Local Sweden that he organized the crawfish party — which is a Swedish tradition that normally takes place during this time of year — and was there at the time of the event.
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To that end, all the oysters, shrimp, crab, crawfish, redfish and catfish she serves in the restaurant are flown in several times a week directly from Louisiana Cajun country and the Gulf Coast, she said.
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Even before I could eat crawfish, I loved watching my dad and uncles haul in ten-pound bags of the clawed critters, live and squirming, for backyard boils at our houses in the Houston suburbs.
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I enjoy art markets and crawfish boils at a park named for Benjamin Palmer, a Presbyterian minister who on Thanksgiving in 1860 preached that it was the South's holy duty to protect and extend slavery.
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Last year, she and chef Lisa White (of Domenica and Pizza Domenica) opened Willa Jean, a laid-back bakery café serving everything from avocado toast to crawfish étouffée to banana pudding—with house-made Nilla wafers, naturally.
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And, if you thrilled as we did to Bryan Miller's short dispatch from Hawk's restaurant in Rayne, La., this week, take a look at this cool flyover video of the town and crawfish farms that surround it.
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"Vietnamese-Cajun crawfish reflects the dynamism of newly-arrived Southerners—Vietnamese refugees and their progeny—who reinterpret the culture and the cuisine of the place they claim," says John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance.
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Local residents said the healer was correct that few Congolese ever visit Lake Bunyonyi, which is at an altitude of 6,500 feet and surrounded by farmers, crawfish-gatherers and lakeside resorts (including Idi Amin's former summer home).
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Each piece features adorably festive coastal designs – including a grouper, conch, shrimp, crawfish, and crab – and is temperature resistant, meaning you can seamlessly take them from the oven, to the microwave, to the table, to the freezer.
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It sits on the upper edge of the Cajun Prairie, a plain of humid farmland flecked with palmettos, crawfish ponds and live oak that sprawls north from the marshy cane fields nearer to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Some 120,000 people live on the most vulnerable shrinking lowlands south of New Orleans, fishing for shrimp and crawfish, harvesting oysters or working in the shipyards, oil refineries and petrochemical plants along the river banks and Gulf shores.
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I saved for college for years, working part-time jobs over several summers to help pay for the cost of my fancy liberal arts school degree (ask me about my job as a crawfish packer in Baton Rouge).
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I'd sometimes go the Pontchartrain lakefront with my friend Dez and her husband and their several kids on Sunday afternoons where families would come with aluminum baking pans of boiled crawfish, shrimp, sometimes crab, potatoes, boudin, and corn.
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They flourish in the sea of hungry people: spicy jambalaya overflows from flimsy white plastic bowls; thick chicken and andouille gumbo sprawls on beds of white rice; newspapers normally splattered with political nonsense are more aptly covered in crawfish.
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Guillot, a Cajun famous for his backside crawfish boils and his penchant for hanging voodoo dolls in his barn to signify a hex on a rival horse or trainer, sells a theory about a mishap in the breeding shed.
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At a recent crawfish boil fundraiser for Nehls, Mike Richards, a former state senator and radio host, said he was a longtime supporter of both Bush presidents, but that he could not endorse "the progeny" after the 2016 election.
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Eight women had been found in the crawfish ponds and canals of Jennings—a town of about 10,000—in various stages of decomposition, between 2005 and 903, and the investigative journalist took a trip to the area to poke around.
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The city known for its Parisian take on buttery pastries and down-home crawfish gumbo is one of this country's most eclectic melting pots of culture — a hotbed of sparkle and pizzazz — and exactly where we're sourcing our fall makeup inspiration.
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Get a room in a B&B on colorful Esplanade Avenue for a stay that looks back in time and comes with a breakfast of chicory and crawfish — a step up from the Gatorade and frozen waffles of previous spring breaks.
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That night, I saw a woman wrap a lobster in a cloth napkin and put it in her purse, and I saw an entire table of adults eat lobsters like they were oversized crawfish, snapping their… necks (??) and sucking their heads.
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Those memories are fond, and I'd come to find the crawfish delicious too, but I'd never have anticipated how illustrious our style of boiling would become, for both its brilliant form and its colorful significance to the South's cultural fabric.
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Errol got a first look at the settlement, a handful of tiny homes made of assorted scavenged materials, driftwood, parts of wrecked boats—two had roofs like the tops of cabin cruisers—and surrounded by substantial piles of crawfish traps.
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A few dishes in, and I was nostalgic for a childhood I never lived, a life of delicate crawfish hushpuppies like fried gulps of briny air, black-eyed peas breathing smoke and yams roasted just enough to divulge their natural sweetness.
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Louisana's Atchafalaya Basin is the largest freshwater wetland in the country and the primary source for the state's age-old crawfish industry, which supplies the majority of the U.S. with the beloved crustacean and generates roughly $300 million for the state every year.
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Louisana's Atchafalaya Basin is the largest freshwater wetland in the country and the primary source for the state's age-old crawfish industry, which supplies the majority of the U.S. with the beloved crustacean and generates roughly $221 million for the state every year.
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Boiled crawfish are most commonly associated with Cajun food, but they lend themselves to Vietnamese flavors, too, as proven by their popularity among the communities of the Gulf Coast, and they've become hugely prevalent in China, where they're often prepared in spicy broth.
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All 10 recipes draw inspiration from a region, like bison pot roast with hominy from the Great Plains, heirloom tepary beans with chile-agave glaze from the dry American Southwest, and crawfish and shrimp pot with sassafras from the Gulf Coast and Mississippi Delta.
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FAT BIRD SOUTHERN KITCHEN AND BAR The television cooking personality Cat Cora has taken over the former Diner in the meatpacking district to open a Southern-style restaurant serving fried chicken and biscuits, crawfish hush puppies, shrimp and grits, catfish tacos and beef barbecue.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a long-running lawsuit against Kinder Morgan's Southern Natural Gas subsidiary by more than 80 crawfish producers who say commercial dredging in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin has damaged the crustaceans' habitat and the fisheries' ability to navigate it.
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Three Legged Dog Tavern (400 Burgundy St., New Orleans, 504-412-8335): Open 24 hours, seven days a week, the bar servs a traditional crawfish boil seasoned with Zatarain's Crab Boil, two bottles of lemon juice, red pepper, chili pepper, salt, garlic pepper, and black pepper.
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The first sign that you're in for an adventure at Le Sia, which specializes in Beijing-style crawfish, is the house bib: not your average flimsy scrap of plastic but a rather weighty, tailored garment that would make a perfect full-sized apron for a toddler.
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The other Bayou Teche spring ale is made to go with the crawfish that appear January through June, when 30-pound sacks of still-wriggling freshwater crustaceans are often boiled right in the backyard and seasoned with a brick-red spice mix laden with cayenne pepper.
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It's impossible to pigeonhole the cuisine they offer in what amounts to a casual brasserie-style setting: Louisiana crawfish, veal tongue sliders, shishito tempura, New Zealand cockles in coconut milk, cream of onion soup, beef shin with garlic spaetzle and grilled sardines give you some idea.
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His take on Greek cuisine results in dishes like crisp duck wings, octopus beignets, New Orleans-style barbecued shrimp, clams stuffed with crawfish, and lacquered Long Island duck, all of which coexist with typical Greek dips like taramosalata, black linguine with seafood, a Greek salad, and grilled branzino.
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As I drive through the Chacahoula Swamp on my way to Galliano, La., where I grew up, I think of my cousin who used to catch crawfish in the Atchafalaya Spillway, slogging through the swamp, machete in hand, pulling his boat filled with 20 sacks to get to market.
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Run by Karlos Knott, 53, whose paternal ancestors arrived here in 1780 from Quebec, Bayou Teche Brewing is an eight-year-old family-owned operation, situated on a piece of property that includes the four Knott family houses, a crawfish pond and a dance hall known as the Turnip.
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Its main restaurant, Matt's Stock Island Kitchen & Bar, has become a dining destination for upscale versions of local seafood, such as black grouper with cornbread gnudi and crawfish-thyme butter, recommended by my Russian waitress who said she came to the Keys on vacation and has stayed seven years.
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According to signs I see in the GameDay crowd, Alabama's coach, Nick Saban: asks for BBQ sauce at Raising Cane's, subs toast for slaw, eats raw pasta, prefers a nice autumnal mead, makes his gumbo with Jimmy Dean sausage, eats his crawfish with a fork, and puts kale in his gumbo.
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I once got in real trouble with my ex because I ate crawfish on his porch, got the juice everywhere, dumped the shells in the garbage can in 90-degree weather, and then happily sprawled onto his bed and started scrolling through my IG feed without washing my hands and face.
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In January of this year, environmental groups including the Sierra Club, Waterkeeper Alliance, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, Gulf Restoration Civil Action Network, and the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to block a permit the Corps issued that allowed construction of the pipeline in the environmentally valuable Atchafalaya Basin.
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Incident reports from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) paint a grim national picture of workplace overdose deaths: a mechanic at a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plant in Michigan, a construction worker on a barge in Rhode Island, a crawfish fisherman in Louisiana, and a Sam's Club worker who died while stocking shelves in a Texas warehouse.
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Incident reports from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration paint a grim national picture of workplace overdose deaths: a mechanic at a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plant in Michigan, a construction worker on a barge in Rhode Island, a crawfish fisherman in Louisiana and a Sam's Club worker who died while stocking shelves in a Texas warehouse.
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Whether the tools are fingers, a knife, or scissors, the viewer can practically hear the wet crunch of a crawfish head wrenched from its body, the crackling pop of a melon pulled in two, or the sounds of a knife navigating the shifting terrain of a green bell pepper, from its hard skin to its soft interior that will spew seeds when torn.
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I couldn't shake the idea that they were some type of mascot for the city: I'd sometimes be sitting at Katie's, or some other venerable New Orleans restaurant, with a napkin on my lap, merking a crab cake flatbread but thinking about my antler-adorned mistress, the orangey-red crawfish waiting for me, perched atop a pile of her friends at one of the shops on Claiborne.
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The Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback threw five touchdowns Monday night against Clemson, delivering a national championship for L.S.U. NEW ORLEANS — When Joe Burrow showed up on Louisiana State's campus less than two years ago, wooed by a crawfish dinner, the irresistible charms of Coach Ed Orgeron and the opportunity to chase a dream that had been denied him at Ohio State, it was a marriage of convenience.
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In the first two decades of the 20th century, which was perhaps the heyday of the New Orleans street vendor, you could encounter the Banana Man, the Waffle Man, the Hot Stuffed Crab Lady, the Peanut Man, the Calas Woman (Calas are Creole rice fritters), the Crawfish Man, and the Ha-Ha Man (the ice cream man whose nickname derived from the lyrics of his particular song).
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As a show that appears to be targeted toward the YA set, it's disturbing to see Patty and Bob bond over their shared eating disorder and encourage each other to essentially use their food cravings as motivation — to win, to seek retaliation, to earn someone's trust, or some combination of all three (as seen in that mortifying scene where Patty pressures him to win the crawfish eating competition in order to prove he's "willing to risk it all" to help her win the pageant).
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From that 313-acre estate along the Bayou Teche — a bayou being the Louisianian term for a waterway smaller than a river — Mr. Knott and his brothers, Byron, 52, and Dorsey, 47, produce 200 barrels of beer a week, much of it intended to go with the foods they grew up eating: gumbo made with a dark Cajun roux, jambalaya and smoked meats, fried Gulf shrimp and fist-size oysters and butter-mounted crawfish étouffée served over local rice simmered with more butter and bay leaves.
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QB: JEEP STREET MEAT FB: VOLKSWAGEN TUNA RB: TEMPO BIG MAC C: LINCOLN BEANS RG: CUTLASS SALAMI LG: CHEVETTE CRAWFISH PIE RT: SAFARI SAUSAGE LT: MUSTANG GUACAMOLE TE: MERCURY CHIPOTLE WR: HONDA LASAGNA WR: MONTEGO SHRIMP DT: OMEGA LO MEIN DT: SIERRA CONCH DE: BMW ADULT MILKSHAKE DE: BUICK FRUITCAKE MLB: CHEVY CHORIZO SLB: FORD STRYCHNINE WLB: THUNDERBIRD MCDOUBLE SS: BENTLEY KOMBUCHA FS: FIAT TARATUFFOLI DB: MONTE CARLO PEACHES DB: SILVERADO ALFREDO P: SATURN PISTACHIO K: PEUGEOT PAELLA LS: WRANGLER ELK STEAK Who will coach this swarthy cadre of brigands?
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Servings: 4-6Prep time: 15 minutesTotal time: 53 hour 2 pounds|1 kg shell-on shrimp2 teaspoons Tony Cachere's creole seasoning1 ½ teaspoons Zatarain's creole seasoning3 fresh bay leaves8 tablespoons|113 grams unsalted butter2 ribs celery, diced1 green bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, and diced13 medium yellow onion, diced2 garlic cloves, minced ¼ cup|50 grams duck fat¼ cup|35 grams all-purpose flour28 pound|210 grams crawfish tails⅓ cup|22 ml heavy creama few dashes of your favorite hot saucea few dashes of Worcestershire sauce¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper½ lemon26 pound|27 grams fettucini25 tablespoons finely chopped parsley13 teaspoons thyme leaves 21 tablespoons finely chopped chives 24.
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