The Crawfish Day

Fifi's curiosity about this landscape shortly after Eunice, Lousiana, and the view of a man driving a weird boat rejecting muddy water brought us to a new adventure.. The first guy we met was only speaking spanish, he arrived from Mexico only three months ago. His first name : Isidoro

... Isidoro is actually employed on a crawfish farming place (un site d'elevage d'ecrevisses, for our french readers). He navigates to pick up the shellfish traps (strange thing emerging from the water was the extremity of the trap..) and empties them in those purple bags.

 "El patron" Douglas Zaunbrecher just passed to collect the bags when we were talking to Isidoro.. The Mexican worker went away and we had a long discussion with Douglas, about the cultures rotation (crawfish from february to july, and rice in late summer and fall, when the water has been drained), quantity harvested, competition, distribution system ("six to seven bars come directly to our place", he said) etc. Then Douglas proposed to follow him to the farm.

"No No Douglas it's a male look at this !!"

... "And does the female taste better ?", funny French visitors could have asked..

Dwayne (on the right) is the older brother of Douglas and the one who actually seems to run the place.. "I'm a farmer at the head of a small business", that's how he describes himself

The Zaunbrechers' grandfather was born in this house in 1907... the parents of the baby had just left Kassel, Germany, to settle in Louisiana.

Afternoon job for the Mexican workers employed by the Zaunbrechers ; they cut the fish that's gonna be used the morning after as bait, to attract the crawfish in the traps. Those guys (11 on the site) usually work 6 to maximum 9 months a year, until the expiration of their visa. They make 70 USD a day, are off on Sundays only. They come from central Mexico, around San Miguel Allende. Their employer provides them health insurance, he said.

And then, about one hour later, came the time of "apero" and a degustation of this bloody crustace in a small place held by Mike (M and M, like Mike and Michelle, his wife..) in Abbeville (yes Abbeville, city founded by a french catholic priest)

Brice, a 18 year old student, was our cooker of the day in this little Crawfish Drive In Cajun style... yammi yammi!!!