continues with fried catfish from Mississippi, which joined the union on December 10, 1817. The state: Known for floods, white supremacy and teen pregnancy, Mississippi also boasts the countryâ s ...

Daren Bakst is the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. If you’re looking for the word catfish in the omnibus appropriations bill, you’ll just ...

Workers gather catfish into large nets at a fish farm in Doddsville, Miss. The fish are placed in large tanks of cold water and shipped to a processing plant. Bill Battle peers through the window of a ...

Editor’s Note: A version of this essay first appeared on the food and culture blog, American Food Roots. For decades, generations of my family gathered over plates piled high with freshly fried, ...

Although catfish can be caught year-round, locating lots of fish is most predictable in spring and early summer during the spawn in Northeast Florida. Like many freshwater species, catfish have an ...

So many restaurants are serving catfish, and people keep telling me it's healthy. I thought it was considered a dirty bottom feeder and that you had to be careful with it. Which is it -- healthy, or ...

Bill Battle peers through the window of a pickup truck at his catfish farm, Pride of the Pond, near Tunica, Miss. The land is pancake-flat, broken up by massive ponds, some holding up to 100,000 ...

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