Ben Nims wrote a piece called Southern Glories in the October issue...including 6 restaurants in Mississippi and their "specialty!" I was so excited that Ben included The Crown...you can look at it on-line at www.saveur.com ... but I just have to quote him too...
In Ben's words, "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi," said the native son William Faulkner. The best way to do that, if you ask me, is to eat. Here is a cross-section of Mississippi's soul-stirring culinary landscape."
Then he wrote, "The Crown. The Catfish Pate and Catfish Allison (a whole filet gratineed in a scallion cream sauce) have kept this Indianola restaurant going strong for 33 years." The article is short and oh, so sweet and I love every word Ben wrote! He's eaten with us...lots of time...so he knows what he's talking about. No "hearsay" for Ben!
Then on the same page in "Ask a Local, Amy Evans, an oral historian from Southern Foodways Alliance in Oxford, Mississippi answered the question, "Why is Catfish so popular in the state?" with..."we raise more of it than any other state. At restaurants you find it broiled, fried, barbecued; we even have Catfish Pate."
Our Catfish Pate of course. Thanks to Saveur and Ben and Amy.....we do love our Catfish in Mississippi and in Indianola...and we do love to eat ...especially at The Crown! Ya;ll come eat with us!
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