So I suppose you’ve been wondering where I’ve been. Well, frankly, I’ve been working. No joke. I’m in Orange Beach, AL working on a sea-to-table story about shrimp. Funny thing is, I had this planned out a while back. Had no idea there’d be an oil spill involved.
Yes, people around here are worried about it. But so far, there’s been no oil on the beach. It hasn’t spread as far as the Gulf Shores area. Whether or not it will is impossible for me to say.
But you know me… there’s absolutely no reason not to gather as much information as possible on a trip like this. That’s why I can tell you that those steamed oysters above are available on the Steamed Seafood Platter at Live Bait. I managed to eat all the seafood on the platter — what seemed like a pound of snow crab legs, a mess of shrimp and those oysters (there were four) — but I had to leave behind the corn and potatoes. Wonder where else I went? Royal Red shrimp and three more places on the jump.