Cooking Crawfish Étouffée...

...with Andre Dubus's mom, the best way to cook ribs, new books, movies, cocktails, links...

“It’s the way I ate when I was a kid,” said Pat Dubus, as she prepared to teach me how she makes crawfish étouffée. “It’s the way Daddy used to cook.” Pat, 85 this year, grew up in Lake Charles, LA, and married the writer Andre Dubus. After they split up, she raised their four children on her own in northeastern Massachusetts, one of whom, Andre Dubus I…