re: Chicken Bayou Lafourche (photos)

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You don't know nothin about no baya Lafourche baw

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I didn't name the dish TT.

Maybe John Folse did. He has a similar recipe

My experience with Bayous is Beasley Bayou, which runs about seven miles from Isola, MS to the Sunflower River. My grandparents raised my mother, six sisters and two brothers on a cotton farm on Beasley Bayou, about two miles from the Sunflower River. I never heard my PaPa call it anything other than the Sunflower Bayou. Maybe he didn't like Mr. Beasley, whoever he was.
I spent a lot of my childhood watching Water Moccasins swimming in Beasley Bayou.

I have driven Bayou Lafourche most of the length. It is a bigger piece of water than Beasley Bayou.

Someone must have liked Bayou Lafourche a lot to name this dish after the waterway. Maybe my Grandma should have named her fried pork chops, crowder peas and cornbread supper after Beasley Bayou.