Season 2, Episode 4: Louisiana - Sean Brock
Mind of a Chef: Season 2 - Sean Brock & April Bloomfield
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23m
This episode focuses on the heavy influence Louisianan cuisine has on Sean. Historian and food-writer John T Edge of the Southern Food Alliance takes Sean to his “favorite place on Earth”, Middendorf’s Restaurant, where they shave thin slices of catfish into the fryer to create a catfish chip. In the kitchen, Sean makes a gumbo and his version of the catfish chip. Chef Donald Link takes Sean frogging then cooks up a frog dish.
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