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…
On the Causeway, The Bluegill Earns Second Place and No Apologies
A spring 2008 lunch at The Bluegill on the Causeway turned up a respectable gumbo, a properly grilled grouper filet and a plainspoken verdict on where the restaurant ranks among…
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…