Bayou Fête VI

May 31, 2009 in Food, home cooking, restaurants..., Washington, D.C., and the Chesapeake Bay watershed | Tags: 3) Food, bayou fete vi, crawfish, non-Japanese

We were invited by an alumna to Bayou Fête VI on Saturday. Fifteen thousand pounds of crawfish, forty kegs of beer, unknown quantities of jambalaya, five hours of music, and an hour-long nap under the trees, accompanied by a mellow group of fifteen hundred adults and kids that ripped tails and, yes, sucked heads with panache. They were elegantly casual in their ingestion of so much shellfish, fingers skilled after much practice in taking apart Procambarus clarkii (or relations).