HOUMA — Could Louisiana's swamp rat lose its reputation as a pest to make a furry fashion statement? Cree McCree, a New Orleans writer and artist, hopes that by showcasing nutria fur in fashion ...

There's also this recipe book from 1963 that can give you other great ideas for nutria recipes. When it comes to sides for ...

Camilla Mortensen’s roadkill cuisine article was great, thoroughly researched, except for: “Please don’t tell me to eat nutria!” which betrayed deep ethnocentrism, I am sorry to say.As noted, nutria ...

But the push to mass-market nutria meat didn’t really catch on, so the money was transferred in 2003 to the department’s bounty program, in which Louisiana pays $5 per nutria tail turned in by ...

Unlike their rat cousins, nutria are primarily vegetarians and have tasty flesh. In fact, extension offices in the South carry brochures with nutria recipes, ...