Frog gigging — hunting with a three-pronged spear — is a dying art that nevertheless draws thousands to Missouri marshes in search of a tasty treat with deep cultural roots. It’s the middle of the ...

Evidence abounds in Louisiana that a mascot can bring people together better than almost anything else. The Picayune Frog started doing just that more than a century ago. Long before Margaret Orr, Rob ...

City folk may not know it, but it's frog-hunting season in Oklahoma. Generations of Southerners have passed down the tradition of fishin' in the dark for Oklahoma's delicacy - frog legs - which taste ...

In 1952, the paper introduced a new weather mascot, Pogo the Possum, and readers demanded the return of the amphibian. In the "The Picayune Creole Cook Book," which originally published in 1901, the ...