Chris Bicknell has organized roughly 100 crawfish boils, but he still remembers his first. It was high school in Metairie, Louisiana (his hometown), where he was in a backyard, surrounded by about thirty 11th graders and eighty pounds of crawfish....
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Here in New York City, those of us who have lived in (or just plain love) New Orleans are on a constant hunt for any of the foods that brought us joy from that area. Oysters, beignets, crawfish, jambalaya,...
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A BY CITY GUIDE TO THANKSGIVING PIES I once wrote a piece for the New York Observer advocating the nation skip the turkey, stuffing, and sweet potatoes, and opt for an all pie Thanksgiving meal. A meal consisting of, say,...
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