by Patrice Doucet | Oct 26, 2024 | Download, Health, Seafood
It’s a longtime seafood industry, but still not widely known to the public: soft-shell crabs. Consumers are familiar with the hard-shell crabs, but a surprising number – even some Cajuns – have not tried their soft edible versions. In 2017, 10,865 pounds of...
by Patrice Doucet | Oct 2, 2024 | Download, Health, Seafood
In conversations amongst local fishermen, you usually don’t hear, “Are the porgy biting?” You’ll hear reports on catches of snapper, redfish, flounder or bass – but not porgy! However, a growing number of anglers – and chefs – know a quality fish when they...
by Patrice Doucet | Sep 3, 2024 | Download, Health, Seafood
It’s Gator Season! Only in Louisiana could the conversation of alligator hunting come up in a funeral home. But there I was, amidst 50 other conversations, hearing about bait and tags, the best meat on an alligator and how to cook it tender. It is hunting season...
by Patrice Doucet | Jul 28, 2024 | Health, Seafood
Shrimp are the king in Delcambre – especially in the month of August. The Shrimp Festival , this year held August 14-18, offers up a feast of shrimp-focused dishes, including boiled shrimp, shrimp etouffee, shrimp salad, popcorn shrimp and fried...
by Patrice Doucet | Jul 3, 2024 | Download, Health, Seafood
It’s amazing – the number of Cajuns who have never heard of soft-shell crawfish, given that soft-shell crabs are a popular menu item at many seafood restaurants. To get past the first roadblock to enjoying soft-shell crawfish is to understand that you are not...
by Patrice Doucet | May 18, 2024 | Health, Seafood
Ugly fish always get a bad rap, often considered as trash fish. But in the case of sheepshead, with its human-looking teeth and convict stripes across the body, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Little secret: About 20 years ago sheepshead began showing up on...
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