-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Bibi Hutchings, a lifelong Southerner, lives along a quiet coastal Alabama bay with her cat, Zulu, and husband, Tom. She writes about the magical way food evokes memories, instantly bringing you back to the people, places and experiences of your life. Her stories take you all around the South and are accompanied with tried-and-true recipes that are destined to become a part of your memory-making as you share them with your friends and family.
Dauphin Island is the southernmost point of Alabama. It is a tiny barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico about three miles south of Mobile Bay. Located just outside the city of Mobile , but within the limits of Mobile County, it stretches fourteen miles long and is only a mile-and-a-half at its widest point.
When I was in high school, I spent many a summer day there with my friend, Jeri, and her family at their house on the east end, and this recipe is from that time. Less than an hour drive from where we lived in Mobile , Dauphin Island was another world — a far simpler one — with only one main road and very few things to do other than bicycle around and hang out on the beach. Jeri and I loved it: the days were long, the sunsets spectacular, and there was no problem in either of our lives that we believed we could not solve between the two of us.
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