Kitchen on George Shares Its Crawfish Bisque Recipe, Stuffed Heads and All
Crawfish season on the Gulf Coast runs deep, and few dishes show it off like crawfish bisque — the Cajun tradition that treats the season’s last crawfish as an occasion…
A Katrina Refugee Restaurant Finds a Second Life in a Paper Mill Town
A Mobile dining critic on the road found the Big Easy Grill in Bogalusa, Louisiana, a restaurant destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in St. Bernard Parish and rebuilt next to a…
At The Royal Scam, Downtown Mobile Found Its Best Bowl of Shrimp Etouffee
A spring 2008 lunch at the Royal Scam on Royal Street produced the best shrimp etouffee in Mobile, a standout salad, and a lesson in the difference between a dark…
A Strip-Mall Kitchen on University Boulevard Lays Claim to Mobile’s Best Gumbo
After years of searching, a Mobile dining critic said in April 2008 that he had finally found a gumbo worth the hunt, at an unassuming po-boy shop at University Boulevard…
‘Do Ya Want Dat Dressed, Dahlin?’ In Search of a Proper Roast Beef Po-Boy
Dressed, pressed, and messy enough to require a stack of napkins: our critic laid out the rules of a proper roast beef po-boy, then admitted he had yet to find…
Gumbo, Revenge and Mercy: A Mobile Grandmother’s Verdict on Canned Salmon
When a Mobile attorney sent a canned-salmon gumbo recipe to his daughter's West Coast newspaper column, his mother wrote back with a letter that doubled as a lesson in Gulf…