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And to those worried restaurateurs facing rising prices for shrimp and oysters? In the words of fellow BP rep Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.” http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/shrimp.asp »
A New Harry Middleton Book!
I was notified by a buddy that Skyhorse Publishing has just announced “In That Sweet Country: Uncollected Writings of Harry Middleton” to be published in July! You all know by now, Harry is my favorite writer, and one of the most tragic and talented of all authors I’ve ever read. For Middleton fans, this is... »

Roger Emile Stouff has been a writer and journalist since 1980, now with the St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune in Franklin, Louisiana where he has received numerous state press awards for his column, "From the Other Side," reprinted here. He is the son of Nicholas Stouff, the last traditional chief of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana and Lydia Gaudet Stouff, a Cajun Belle. (Photo by Sue Davis)