Black Widow

Black bottle with white spider illustration, in a lineup of pepper, celery flake, Zatarain’s crab boil, garlic and Old Bay seasoning.

Nocturnal short order cook.

Remember the guy who was the night closer at that blue-plate-special Cajun joint?
He was quiet and always smelled like dish soap, the étouffée spice mix–made of dried green herbs and woody thyme–and the dusting sugar that went on the beignets. No-one ever saw him in the daylight, but everybody liked him.

Black Widow has almost no projection and lasts as long as a dinner break.

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New Orleans native Fats Domino revamped Junker’s Blues into The Fat Man–which became the first rock and roll single to sell a million copies–here’s a version of the original by Hugh Laurie.

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