By Elizabeth Grossman
July 26, 2010
From The Pump Handle

In mid-June most of the seafood shacks along the bayou roads between New Orleans and Grand Isle were closed. A seafood market that I stopped by on the western edge of New Orleans was virtually devoid of customers despite bins brimming with bright blue crab and tawny shrimp. Business was so slim that two women who should have been tending to customers were playing Yahtzee. "We've never done this on a workday before," they told me. Another woman unloading sacks of shrimp frowned at my notepad and said, "I blame the media. We've got plenty of shrimp and it's safe." She wouldn't tell me where her shrimp came from, but the woman tending a nearby stall said theirs were inland rather than coastal shrimp. Read the full article here...