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Good Gumbo
Oysters On the Half-Shell
Season 1
Episode 7
Oysters are one of the most famous ingredients in Louisiana cuisine. Fresh from the water, you’ll find them raw “on the half shell,” fried, charbroiled, baked, stewed, or in a po-boy. But however you choose to eat them, you probably didn’t know they’ve been a part of diets down here for thousands of years.
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