By Stephen Melancon
WWL-TV 4
Al Scramuzza, the flamboyant seafood pioneer known as the “Crawfish King” who helped make the mudbug a staple of Louisiana cuisine, died Sunday at his home in Metairie after a brief illness. He was 97.
Scramuzza was the founder of Seafood City, a sprawling seafood market that once took up an entire city block on North Broad Street in Mid-City and became one of the largest seafood operations in the Gulf South.