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1 hour ago, Katie Meadow said:Maybe apocryphal, but I was told that LA BBQ shrimp originated as a quick one-pan dish on the shrimp boats.
I was pretty sure it started in a New Orleans restaurant, and an article about the restaurant Pascal’s Manale says that it originated there, in 1953. It seems that the original recipe used olive oil, not butter!
1 hour ago, Katie Meadow said:Maybe apocryphal, but I was told that LA BBQ shrimp originated as a quick one-pan dish on the shrimp boats.
I was pretty sure it started in a New Orleans restaurant, and an article about the restaurant Pascal’s Manale says that it originated there, in 1953. It seems that the original recipe used olive oil, not butter!
