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  • A Food Q&A with “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Screenwriter, Lucy Alibar

    A Food Q&A with “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Screenwriter, Lucy Alibar

    Long time readers of the blog probably know my friend Lucy Alibar best as the creator of these incredibly easy, incredibly delicious chocolate peanut butter cookies. Now she’s gone and created something slightly more ambitious: a little movie she wrote called “Beasts of the Southern Wild” that’s taking the world by storm. It won the…

  • Our Louisiana Seafood Adventure

    Our Louisiana Seafood Adventure

    When the BP oil spill happened, newscasters and journalists alike spoke of the devastating effect this would have on the Louisiana seafood industry. For most of us, that industry was just an abstraction. We imagined men and women in boats or on docks, but we didn’t have any specific images in our heads (except the…

  • Joe’s Stone Crab

    Joe’s Stone Crab

    There’s a secret about Joe’s Stone Crab in Miami that’s so dangerous, so protected that the people who took me there for dinner do not want to be identified. I could’ve chosen, of course, just to write about the meal like any other meal; focusing on the food instead of the secret, but the secret…

  • My Dungeness Crab Adventure

    My Dungeness Crab Adventure

    Let’s say you’re growing up in Boca Raton, Florida and you’re looking at a map and someone says to you, “Point to a place in America that seems the most exotic to you, the most far away?” there’s a good chance you might point to Washington State. After all, it’s pretty much as far as…

  • The Great Crab Debate

    For as long as I’ve known him, Craig has waxed lyrical about the Dungeness crabs he and his family eat when they go to their cabin on the San Juan Islands, pull the crabs right out of the water, boil them and eat them right on the spot. Diana, however, who comes from Virginia is…