crawfish

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OAKDALE, La.—This southwestern Louisiana city of 6,600 is home to a federal prison, a plywood mill and a couple of takeout crawfish joints.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Government data shows crab landings down on previous years but catches of lobster, crawfish and scallops stable.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

When Kelsey Barnard Clark won the sixteenth season of "Top Chef," set in Kentucky, she clinched victory with a dish that defied fine dining expectations: cornbread and buttermilk with crawfish, boiled peanuts, cucumber and watermelon.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2025

The Louisiana State University’s Agriculture Center estimates the potential losses to the state’s crawfish industry to be nearly $140 million.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024

For four years now she had taken her “walks” and come home offering fuki tendrils, watercress, crawfish, mushrooms, huckleberries, salmonberries, blackberries—even clusters of blue elderberries for making jam—anything to conceal her purpose.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson