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Breakfast After the Battle
To celebrate our survival from last night’s Battle of Fausse Pointe—in which hundreds of mosquitoes gave their lives and our side suffered only deep psychological trauma—Age and I made a breakfast fit for battle-hardened swamp goblins: fresh-caught drum and Gulf shrimp over dirty rice. Also, hooray! We weren’t eaten by the murmuration? shiver? menace? bureaucracy?…
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Lake Fausse Pointe
Floating on Lake Fausse Pointe, ringed by ancient cypress and draped in stillness. The light shifts, the moss sways, and the whole world slows down to the rhythm of water.
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Shantyboat Hooch
Apple and grape. Lalvin 71B. Saran Wrap and a rubber band for a bubbler. Shantyboat hooch is underway. It’s not our first batch, and it probably won’t be our finest—but there’s something satisfying about getting a little fermentation going with the simplest means. Juice, yeast, patience, and a little swamp air magic. Give it a…
