VIDEO: Cajun Crawfish: Catching, Cooking and Eating

This clip presents the ubiquitous nature of crawfish in the Louisiana landscape. There is a three part process involved in the enjoyment of crawfish: farming the crawfish, boiling the crawfish and consuming the crawfish. This example presents several people speaking about the influence of crawfish and how each process occurs. The tradition of crawfish is evident from the passed on family knowledge of farming crawfish to the eating contests and community boils.

Taken from Crawfish!
Produced and Directed by Charles Bush
Haunted Water, Fragile Land and Oh, What Tales To Tell
Directed by Glen Pitre
Produced for: Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program
1994

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