Sometimes the foul weather is the inspiration for the party. I did not call ahead or hesitate, just made sure there were Tums in the bedside bottle. Whatever critter Cajuns cook, wild or tame, is good. They could prepare old shoe leather with garlic, onion and gravy and make it tasty. Cooks here use cast-iron pots bigger than California hot tubs.
Grocery stores sell rice in serious, feed-sack size.
Meats are smothered, not merely baked or broiled or boiled. Liquor is involved. You don't just get grouse, you get Grouse in White Wine. Snipe is Broiled Brandied Snipe and dove is Sherried Dove. As soon as I cross the state line from Mississippi into Hammond, I get hungry.