Fresh seafood is hard to come by when the nearest coast is over 450 miles away. I have to say, as much as I love this city, I am envious of my coastal cohorts. Hearing my mom talk about buying fresh halibut pretty much right off the boat, yes, that makes me a wee bit jealous. Frozen just doesn't compare. Probably why the seafood category here has been pretty scarce after 2007 (when we moved to Nashville from California). I figure, if you can't have really good, fresh seafood, probably best not to eat it at all. Enter Louisiana Seafood Company. The little shop opened up in the Nashville Farmers' Market house just this past summer. Each week they bring up a load of seafood fresh from the dock. The next best thing to having an ocean outside my window. For not much more than a bag of wimpy, frozen shrimp from Thailand, we can have a pound of beautiful, fresh shrimp. Even when we lived in California, truly fresh shrimp are a delicacy I have never been able to enjoy. And now that we have a

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