After hard years marked by the Gulf oil spill, organizers of Bayou La Batre’s 62nd annual Blessing of the Fleet aimed to make the day a family celebration and a sign of the seafood community’s resilience.
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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 Piggly Wiggly.
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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 roux and a blonde one.
Baldwin County
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 its neighbors.
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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 and Cottage Hill Road.
Bayou La Batre
Gulf Fishermen in Line for $28 Million to Rebuild Oyster Beds and Shrimp Grounds
Federal officials moved in June 2006 to release $28 million for Alabama, aimed at reseeding hurricane-wrecked oyster beds and clearing debris from shrimp grounds off the Gulf Coast.
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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 Coast culinary orthodoxy.