My friend Jim Gabour sent me a Blackberry-thumbed update last week from Pensacola -- where those on the lookout for the arrival of the oil on those pristine beaches weren't talking. He pines for his native New Orleans' seafood and the loss for so many of us.He mourns the loss of traditions linked to cuisine, memories of New Orleans' restaurants and way of life. I can still see myself as an eight-year-old at that table at Antoine's with my family, at 18 enjoying shrimp Po'Boys during the World's Fair at a Cajun racetrack with one of my father's candidates and the folks stirring a pot of gumbo. Food IS life in the South... one of the few places where people still take the time to cook, talk and eat for hours and hours...
Sadness and Seafood: New Orleans Recounts the Loss (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-norris-de-montaigu/gulf-oil-spill-clean-up-s_b_610499.html)