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PETROGNANO, TUSCANY— A few months after my wife and I started dating, she wanted me to meet her grandmother. We set out on the road from Hattiesburg to north Louisiana, and I asked, “Where are we going?” “Shreveport,” she said. Around the time we got to Jackson, she said, “Actually, it’s in Minden, Louisiana.” AfterContinue reading “Sometimes I Feel Like a Magpie”

We are a nation of regional dining concepts and local dishes. Chicago has deep-dish pizza parlors. New Orleans has po-boy shops. Ohio has chili parlors. Maine has lobster shacks. South Florida has crab shacks. Maryland also has crab shacks (there are a lot of shacks in regional dining). Oyster bars are scattered across the GulfContinue reading “Support Your Local Catfish House”