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Day: March 23, 2015

A mountain of boiled crawfish, ready for head-sucking and tail pinching!

Louisiana Crawfish Festival, Chalmette LA, March 26th through 29th 2015

March 23, 2015 / / 1 Comment

Are you ready to pinch some tails and suck some heads? Crawfish season has arrived, and with it comes the annual Louisiana Crawfish Festival in Chalmette! This celebration of the local mudbug began in 1975, and has grown in popularity over the years. Today, people arrive from all over the country to consume crawfish in every way imaginable and then some. The most popular way to eat the tiny shellfish is boiled. The meat is in the tail, and you “pinch” the tail to extract the tasty morsel. Many folks like to “suck the heads,” where the juicy and flavorful crawfish “fat” is located. Continue reading

A pair of coneys from Lafayette Coney Island of Detroit

LAF in the A.M. March 23rd, 2015

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A Morning Menu of LAF-Style Food News and Stories to Begin Your Day

 HAPPY NATIONAL CHIP AND DIP DAY!

A Chat with Faisal Ali, Waiter at Lafayette Coney Island in Detroit

Three 4 1/2-Pound Steak Dinners!

Montreal Smoked Meat on Your Private Jet

Alton Loves Tucson Tamale

A pair of coneys from Lafayette Coney Island of Detroit

A Chat with Faisal Ali, Waiter at Lafayette Coney Island in Detroit

March 23, 2015 / / 1 Comment

Faisal Ali has been a waiter at Detroit’s Lafayette Coney Island for 22 years – he started when he was 16. Mr. Ali says he enjoys his job, he still enjoys hot dogs (although, as a Muslim, he cannot eat Lafayette’s beef-and-pork tube steaks), and tells of the time he received a $400 tip. Watch the interview below:

The famous 72-ounce steak dinner at the Big Texan Steak Ranch of Amarillo

Three 4 1/2-Pound Steak Dinners!

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The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas has a long-standing (and well-publicized) offer: consume a four-and-a-half pound steak dinner, with all the fixin’s (baked potato, salad, shrimp cocktail, and roll) in an hour or less and it’s free. Last year, one Molly Schuyler, a 120-pound woman, consumed the dinner in under five minutes. And then went on to consume a second dinner in under ten minutes! On April 19th, Ms. Schuyler intends to consume three steak dinners in under an hour! We are both repulsed and in awe. Read about the event here.

A Schwartz's smoked meat sandwich

Montreal Smoked Meat on Your Private Jet

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The Financial Times takes a look at Schwartz’s Deli of Montreal, from a businessperson’s perspective.  For instance, if you’re short on time the restaurant will be happy to deliver an order to your private jet at the airport (tip well!). If you have the time to eat there, FT says it’s worth the half-hour waits in freezing temperatures, as well as the lack of privacy (you are likely to share a table with strangers.). Schwartz’s GM explains their popularity: “[I]t’s so damn good.” Read the story here.

Alton Brown's best bite of the day came from the Tucson Tamale Company.

Alton Loves Tucson Tamale

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Alton Brown’s been crisscrossing the country with his live show recently and last night found him in the eminently edible city of Tucson, Arizona. It’s become a tradition for Alton to visit the culinary points of interest in town and tweet about them in the hours leading up to the show. What grabbed him in Tucson? The Tucson Tamale Company, where he says he enjoyed the best bite of the day, and perhaps the week. He wishes he ordered more food from TTC. See Alton Brown’s Tucson tweets here.

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