The biggest crawfish are selects, but at Jo Mama’s in Abbeville, Luke Schultz calls them hammers, because that’s how big they feel.
He showed us around his drive-thru stand and also brought us out to to watch the harvest on ponds his family has been working for generations. They get sorted by size back at the farm and distributed from there.
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The biggest crawfish are selects, but at Jo Mama’s in Abbeville, Luke Schultz calls them hammers, because that’s how big they feel.
He showed us around his drive-thru stand and also brought us out to to watch the harvest on ponds his family has been working for generations. They get sorted by size back at the farm and distributed from there.
I like big mudbugs, and I’ve long understood that for the biggest one must go close to the source.
This inspired a crawfish safari in Cajun country with photographer @davidgrunfeld for @nolanews , a road trip that took us from pond to plate.
Here’s a few glimpses. Link in my bio has the full story on our crawfish safari.
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