Last holiday season, Kim Vanderbrook of Covington had oyster angst. After the BP oil spill, she worried about producing her family's traditional oyster dressing for 30 people, with scarce oysters costing twice as much as the previous year.
She's not having a problem this year. At Thanksgiving, Vanderbrook made four pans of her grandmother's revered dressing recipe and froze a couple of them for Christmas. And her mother is planning the family's usual Christmas Eve party in OId Mandeville with seafood and okra gumbo and oysters on the half shell.
"We're thrilled," Vanderbrook said. The gallon of oysters she bought for this year's dressing were around $60, and "beautiful, almost too big for the dressing. We had to cut them up."
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