Spatula Diaries: A line and a pole

One of Louisiana’s best known food festivals takes place this weekend less than an hour away—the annual Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, an event that pulses with Cajun and zydeco music and features piles of steaming crawfish and dozens of crawfish-centric dishes. Louisiana’s tradition of netting and boiling the freshwater crustaceans began not far from Breaux Bridge in the Atchafalaya River Basin. The festival honors this centuries-old tradition, which sadly, is in peril. To read more about the festival and the perspective from a crawfisherman, read Maggie Heyn Richardson’s blog here.