Hints and tips:
...The server recites the day’s specials: split pea or shrimp bisque....
...I’m still catching up on Queen Sugar, the Louisiana-set family drama that airs on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN channel. “I think of ideas all the time,” says DuVernay....
...If the poached Louisiana shrimp speaks to you as an appetiser, the roasted Muscovy duck with a touch of grated cacao-cured foie gras appeals as a main course and you decide to round it all off with the Gâteau...
...The “throws” are often cheap trinkets but some are more elaborate: the Krewe of Muses hand out glittered shoes; the Krewe of Carollton dispense white rubber shrimp boots; and the Krewe of Tucks have been...
...Judge Carl Barbier, who is hearing the Deepwater Horizon case at the district court, appointed Patrick Juneau, a Louisiana lawyer, to administer claims....
...“The big damage to my company came from the mass invasion of import competition seizing my customer base with the perception that my shrimp was tainted, and their shrimp was not....
...It is no wonder that the company is concerned....
...The freezers are bursting with heat-and-eat French fries, breaded cheese sticks and “popcorn shrimp”....
...– and its garlic butter shrimp, served over a bed of French fries....
...“In the state of Louisiana, people get certified to catch shrimp. You can count the number of shrimpers, oyster-fishers, crabbers, restaurant owners, and so on....
...The beach at Grand Isle state park, a remote and peaceful haven on the Louisiana coast, is closed to the public....
...The company has moved on....
...So what has it been like to organise this year’s Shrimp and Petroleum Festival against a backdrop of the world’s largest offshore oil spill and tensions running high in both of Louisiana’s driving industries...
...In the first week of the white shrimp season, many fishermen complain that docks and processing plants throughout Louisiana remain closed because their customers no longer want to buy....
...“A surprising number of these shrimp find their way to Louisiana,” he wrote....
...“It is a sad thing to ask [for handouts] because, Vietnamese people, we work if we need something,” says Chinh Nguyen, who has spent the last decade fishing the Louisiana coast for shrimp and is one of the...
...“People always ask about the shrimp now,” says Malissa Neil, a waitress from neighbouring Long Beach. “They want to know if it’s safe to eat.”...
...Kim Chauvin, who runs the Louisiana-based Mariah Jade Shrimp Company, said her thriving business had been ravaged with income losses of more than $500,000 a month....
...At the president’s meeting on Friday with locals over seafood snacks at Camerdelle’s Live Bait shop, Terry Vegas, a shrimp boat captain, summed up the prevailing view: “We’re not bitter at the oil companies...
...One Asian shrimp company told the Financial Times it expected to benefit from the desire for “greater access to high-quality products”. That is precisely what US shrimpers fear most....
...However, most of the shrimp and oyster beds to the west of the Mississippi – most of Plaquemines – are closed so competition for other sources of income is keenest there....
...But this could mean that the oil is swept away from the vulnerable Louisiana coast....
...The demand comes as political pressure mounts on both the company and the Obama administration to limit the environmental damage of the spill....
...The explosion on the BP-leased rig, 50 miles offshore, came just before the full moon spawning of shrimp, crab and big speckled trout, according to Barry Colligan, the boat’s skipper....
...“How do we deal with a restaurant in Boston that can’t get shrimp for its favourite dish or the strip joint in New Orleans where business is off because the fishermen aren’t coming in?”...
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