In This Bayou Town, Louisiana Fishers Team Up to Feed Neighbors in Need After Ida

By Ian McNulty

The Times-Picayune

Milton Naquin would otherwise be running his shrimp boat out of Delcambre with white shrimp season in full swing. But instead, last Thursday he and his family and a crew from his Jessica Gail Seafood company rolled into Montegut with a long, covered trailer rigged up to cook huge batches of jambalaya and alligator sauce piquant.

Word spread quickly around the small bayou town and soon people were pulling up for a free, hot meal.

“I like to cook, cuss, drink and tell lies,” Naquin proclaimed, while doing at least two of those things.

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