Notice what’s on the cover of the “Garden & Gun” magazine? One of our favorite bi-valves. You can’t grow or shoot them, so not sure how it fits, but it’s a great issue. It is fast becoming my second favorite, right behind Saveur which has a lot of parallels. Great photos, interesting articles like “Fetch Daddy a Drink – How to apply gun-dog training methods to your children”, which was very well written. The “Oyster Guide” starts off with a little essay entitled “the first one I ate tasted like river mud’, and recounts how he struggled to come to enjoy them and finally had an epiphany when he ate one on a saltine, with cocktail sauce, horseradish, a squeeze of lemon, and “it was good”. He follows that with “I know that oyster purists will say I did not really taste the oyster, that I am a commoner, but they can kiss my a--.” Gotta like that style.
There’s a list of oyster bars in Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. Of course, many were in New Orleans (Acme Oyster House, Drago’s Seafood Restaurant, etc.), great timing on our part!
Then there is a section on “classic recipes” which includes Rockefeller, Deep Fried, Dressing and this one for Bienville. In case you can’t count from the picture there are 16 ingredients in the sauce. Nice looking dish, eh?
There’s articles on quails, foraging (a la Euell Gibbons) and a nice piece on an artist named John Beerman.
Anyway, if you can find a copy I would highly recommend it for an addition to you food resource library..
Well, here’s the rain, just in time for the Book Sale (See picture on front of today’s Enterprise). If you come this evening or over the weekend (Fairgrounds in Leonardtown) be sure to
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