Fried oyster po boy courtesy of buck82 Dish of the Week: Po boys Where: Acadiana, Breadline, Johnny’s Half Shell, Bardia’s, and Hank’s Oyster Bar Mardi Gras is coming up this Tuesday. It is that wonderful time of indulgence right before the abstention of Lent. And we all associate this indulgent day with New Orleans. What better way to celebrate than with some po boys? Nothing could be better than a mess of fried seafood…

Three years ago, Johnny’s Half Shell co-owner Johnny Fulchino was at a Southern Foodways Alliance event when he heard absinthe codebreaker, fanatic and microbiologist Ted Breaux talk about the Green Fairy, absinthe. It piqued his interested in adding a program to Half Shell, but absinthe only became legal in the U.S. in 2007. When his business partner, Chef Ann Cashion, and original Abita brewmaster Brooks Hamaker discovered an old absinthe fountain in New Orleans and…