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Food
4:14 pm
Thu April 19, 2012

Where Y'Eat: Boiling on the Best Bank

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Shrimp and crawfish share the paper at Sal's Seafood.

A visit to one West Bank seafood specialist can feel like a mini road trip out to crawfish-producing Cajun country.

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Louisiana Eats!
5:52 pm
Wed April 18, 2012

Canvases & Crabs

One of Gustav Blache's painting on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

On this week's Louisiana Eats! we'll be joined by painter Gustave Blache to talk about his portraits of culinary icon Leah Chase. And then Rusty Gaude speaks about the new sustainable status of the Louisiana blue crab.

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The Salt
10:52 am
Wed April 18, 2012

Plan To Slaughter Horses For Human Consumption Is Met With Distaste

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No, that's not beef — it's horse meat, at a butcher shop in France. Horse remains a popular food in many countries, but often makes Americans squeamish.

Originally published on Wed April 18, 2012 12:25 pm

When the ban on slaughtering horses for human consumption was lifted in the U.S. last November, it was only a matter of time before someone applied to start the practice up again.

That person is Rick De Los Santos, a New Mexico rancher and owner of Valley Meat Co. If the USDA approves his application to have a former beef slaughterhouse inspected, it would allow the first slaughter of horses in the U.S. since 2007.

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