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...tomato-basil pie in a second-floor cafe. Owner Richard Howorth maintains a local flavor with a section devoted to Oxford's best-known citizen, William Faulkner. A small sign above the stack of copies of the 8 1/2-lb. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reads, $5.98 PER LB. SAME AS CATFISH FILLETS...
...soils in search of its next meal. Black, hooknosed and web-footed, the hunter can dive as deep as 75 ft. under water and consume a pound of fish a day. The bird is known as the double-crested cormorant, but people in the delta are calling it the catfish poacher...
...these parts, where catfish farming has become an important business, growers processed 295 million lbs. of the fish last year, up from 47 million lbs. in 1980. But in Mississippi, which produces 90% of all U.S. catfish, some 100,000 migratory cormorants are biting into the profits by feasting on as much as $6 million worth of catfish a year. Because the birds are largely protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, catfish farmers have resorted to elaborate tactics to scare the birds away: screaming fireworks, propane cannons that boom every 15 to 20 minutes, amplified recordings of bird distress...
...food and especially of drink; he is no crowd pleaser but no fool either, a traditionalist, competent and at the same time numbed by routine. Like many a middle-age professional man, he has problems with the home office (obstructive tactics by the chancery, presided over by Monsignor "Catfish" Toohey, a despised rival of Joe's since childhood), with his clients (an overbearing parishioner who wants to buy his child's way into the church school) and with his territory (blatant boosterism for the suburb's tacky shopping mall, dominated by the "40-foot idol" of the Great Badger, complete...
...city, it has spawned restaurants that serve more than the down-home fare associated with the South. Even so, visitors should first sample the native cuisine. That includes such obvious specialties as crunchy fried chicken with livers and other giblets, fork-tender country-fried steak, braised pork chops, fried catfish and black-eyed peas. To these are added local esoterica like potlikker, a bracing broth that results from cooking pork with greens and is best accented with a dash of Tabasco. Small wonder that to some this is known as soul food...