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"Actually I was very hesitant to work with alligator," says Ashley Porter, creator of Porter Lyons, a high fashion line of accessories made from exotics sourced from the bayous.

"Jenny went to culinary school," Alzina told me later, "but you know they don't teach our Cajun way of cooking." Editor's Note: In 2010, Katie Oxford filed a series of riveting columns from the heart of the Gulf oil spill disaster.

GRAND ISLE, La. It is a small island where the population explodes in the summer: Grand isle.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes until 6 p.m. Friday.