Connections: Capicola and Capybara and Lent

 I saw this sign on the Jimmy John's store window in downtown Mobile: 

Out of capicola in Mobile, Alabama. November 2021. Credit: Mzuriana.

 

The sign grabbed my attention because I didn't know what capicola was. 

But it reminded my of this: 

 

Capybara at Alameda Park Zoo in Alamogordo, New Mexico. March 2010. Credit: Mzuriana.

 

Capybara. Which were new to me when my mother and I encountered them in Alamogordo, New Mexico, more than 10 years ago in March, when we fled from a midwestern winter that wouldn't let loose its frigid fingers. 

Which led me to learn that one can eat capybara during Lent.

Unlike capicola. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louisiana: "Holy Week Crawfish Supply Should Satisfy Demand"

Crawfish Etouffee, Crawfish Etouffee Cook-Off, Eunice, Louisiana

Here's a newspaper headline you don't see in most parts: Holy Week Crawfish Supply Should Satisfy Demand

Excerpted from The Daily Advertiser: LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Louisiana crawfishermen and the merchants who sell the crustacean to retail customers say the supply should be enough to satisfy appetites during Holy Week and Easter weekend.

It's a welcome turn to a season marred by a harsh winter that stunted crawfish growth, limited the catch and made profit forecasts bleak.

In the days leading into Holy Week, prices for a pound of live crawfish ran from $2 at Db Seafood in Morgan City to $2.49 at Tony's Seafood Market and Deli in Baton Rouge.

The price was somewhere in between at D&T Seafood in Abbeville, where live, small-sized crawfish sold for $1.50 a pound and the mediums went for $2.25.

"We're going to have a decent supply" for Easter week, said D&T owner Don Benoit. ..... 

This reminds me of some other Lenten food stories. 


Snails

Georgia: Snails (Part 1)
Georgia: Snails (Part 2)

Snail, Gori, Caucasus Georgia

Capybara

On my first trip to Alamogordo, while on a road trip with my mother, we learned about capybara and Lent.

Capybara, Alamogordo Zoo, New Mexico