Serving 'em hot at the Hospice House Crawfish Cook-Off

Serving 'em hot at the Hospice House Crawfish Cook-Off 
NOLA.com, New Orleans, LA; by Andrew Canulette; 4/28/25 
The 20th annual Hospice House Crawfish Cook-Off was as big a hit as it's ever been when thousands of people packed into Slidell's Fritchie Park on April 26 for the all-you-care-to-eat affair.  Turns out, no surprise, that folks in south Louisiana can eat a lot of crawfish. More than 40,000 pounds of mudbugs (that's 20 tons, y'all) were boiled up for the hungry crowds. Several dozen teams did their own boils, and the secrets in the seasoning, the soaking and all manner of surprises made each batch taste unique. Still, this was a down-home crawfish boil — the kind the people of St. Tammany Parish are accustomed to attending and one the teams in the Hospice House cook-off do so well.