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Skriven 2006-10-16 15:19:05 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 6547 av JOAN MACDIARMID (1:123/140)
Ärende: Brit food 332
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Hi Joan,

 JM>  a "famous" place on Dauphin Island (maybe
 JM>  called "Baileys"?) where I got to try
 JM>  bouillabaise for my first time.

 RH> I think that's the place we had lunch at!  Steve had a shrimp creole
 RH> that looked delicious (he didn't offer me any because he was afraid of
 RH> getting some okra in the gumbo I had in a return bite).  That's ok; my
 RH> seafood gumbo was really good.  Everything was just melt in your mouth
 RH> tender, even the sausage--and the okra.

 JM>  Ha! If you are right, I am glad such an old
 JM>  classic place has survived so long, including
 JM>  surviving the recent hurricanes, which reportedly
 JM>  hit the island pretty hard.

It is a nice place, and, I think, far enough "inland" that the hurricane
didn't bother it much.  We did drive around the area right on the water;
there's still a lot of damage visible.  It reminded Steve & me about
when we lived in NC and going over to Emerald Isle; the houses over
there always got the worst of the storms.  We lived just off the water
on the "mainland" side and would have some flooding but not the whole
house being wiped out as we saw. The food is good; I wouldn't mind going
back again and trying some of the other seafood specials they had.

 JM>  BTW, you might have heard my area got some odd
 JM>  weather on 10/13. I am fine, and my being able
 JM>  to message again says "My electric is on again,
 JM>  thank goodness!" I suddenly have heat and light
 JM>  and refrigeration again! Yay!


Good to hear you're doing well; we did hear about the storm.  Called
Steve's one brother and a niece, both in the Holley (near Albion) area
on Saturday.  They were both without power, using wood stoves/fireplaces
to keep warm and do basic cooking.  I don't miss that kind of weather at
all! (G)

We also heard from one of our friends on Oahu (via e-mail) this morning.
Parts of the island are still without power but a lot of that is
probably more due to the rainstorms than the earthquake. We has some
pretty nasty rain related damage over the years we were there, including
power trouble.  I also heard on the news that this was a tectonic
earthquake, not a volcanic related one--we'd been wondering if one or
another of the volcanoes on the big island was responsible for the
quake.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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