If you live in New Orleans, you can easily pick up a pint of freshly shucked oysters at most grocery stores, especially in late fall and throughout winter as folks prepare to make oyster dishes that are traditional there for the holiday table.
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Gulf of Mexico oysters usually are fat and salty. If they are fresh, we eat them straight from the shell, but they also are great for frying and then tucking into a sandwich or eating on a platter with fresh lemon juice or a touch of tartar sauce. Read More...
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First she was Coffy. “The baddest one-chick hit squad that ever hit town.”
Then she was Foxy Brown. “A chick with drive, who don’t take no jive.”
Pam Grier was not just the most prominent female action star of blaxploitation movies of the 1970s, but also the first big box-office female action draw in all of film.
And yet, as she revealed in her 2010 autobiography “Foxy” and recalls in the bio film this week on TV One’s “Unsung Hollywood,” Grier’s string of roles as fierce women seeking vengeance could be tied to an early life in which she was abused both as a 6-year-old and as a teenage beauty queen in Denver. Read More...