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...Louisiana has not been slighted in recent cookbook publishing, but Paul Prudhomme's blackened everything has overshadowed the basics such as red beans and rice and pralines. Justin Wilson, who has a Cajun-cooking show on PBS, has remedied that with his humorous tome, Homegrown Louisiana Cookin' (Macmillan; $19.95). Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie by Bill Neal (Knopf; $19.95) serves the same purpose for Southern baking. It is comprehensive and sparingly illustrated...
...energy markets have been lifted, and most of the restrictions that made it difficult for industries to shift to whatever fuel is cheapest have been removed. Most vital is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, 590 million bbl. of crude that the government has been stashing away in salt domes in Louisiana and Texas since 1977. Though the reserve is designed to combat shortages that might arise during a crisis, some members of Congress and many energy economists are pushing the Administration to announce that it would be willing to release some reserves to help keep fuel prices down. While Bush hinted...
...event of a true oil emergency, the industrialized nations are far better prepared than they were in the 1970s. The U.S. now has 590 million bbl. of crude squirreled away in salt domes in Texas and Louisiana. That is enough to satisfy America's gas-guzzling habit for about 34 days. Japan has a similar reserve that would last 142 days...
Having Ron Guidry on the mound was like setting up a tank ready to fire missiles at home plate--all strikes. "Louisiana Lightnin'" was tall and lean and liked to plow fields in his home state during the off-season...
...Louisiana's good-guy Governor has his hands full with bills sent to him by his lunatic-asylum legislature. Among them: a draconian antiabortion measure appended to a gutted bill that encouraged beating up flag burners and a record-labeling bill that threatens the state's music industry...