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Festival of Seafood
Own a Piece of Gulf Coast History
Festival of Seafood – The Ultra-Rare 1978 First Edition Cookbook A Collection of Prize-Winning Recipes from Alabama’s Annual Shrimp Festival
Back when the National Shrimp Festival was still young and wild, three local women — Wanda Maddox, Linda Bauer, and Sherry Roberts — started collecting the best dishes from the festival’s Seafood Cooking Contest. In 1978 they released this spiral-bound treasure: Festival of Seafood, the very first official cookbook of the event.
These aren’t just recipes. These are the actual winning entries judged by Mobile Press Register food editors and TV personalities — real Gulf Coast cooks showing off their finest shrimp, crab, oysters, flounder, and mullet dishes. Over 100 recipes that taste like sugar-white beaches, cold beer on the pier, and supper caught that same morning.
Inside you’ll find legendary classics and hidden gems:
- Crab Meat Rockefeller
- Multiple knock-out Seafood Gumbos (including “St. Peter’s Seafood Gumbo” and “Filé Gumbo Fitzgerald”)
- The original West Indies Salad (yes, the one everyone fights over)
- Stuffed Flounder, Shrimp Thermidor, Emperor Pescoda Del Sol, Bayou Baked Crab
- Retro-brilliant appetizers like Shrimp Puffs, Crabbie Bites, and Pleasure Island Oyster Patties
- Casseroles your grandma wishes she had written down
Every page is sprinkled with charming pen-and-ink drawings of shrimp boats, pelicans, lighthouses, and beach scenes by Gulf Shores artist Judy Weatherford. It feels like holding a time capsule from 1978 coastal Alabama.
Physical copies almost never appear for sale — and when they do, they’re usually beat-up and expensive.
Now you can own it instantly — and in the best possible way.
Your purchase includes both PDF versions:
• High-Resolution Scan – gorgeous full-color, exactly like the original yellow cover, spiral binding, every illustration crisp and perfect for browsing or printing pages to hang in your kitchen • Fully Searchable PDF – clean OCR text so you can search “gumbo” or “deviled crab” or “shrimp mold” and jump straight to the recipe (perfect for tablets or quick kitchen lookups)
Bring the authentic flavor of the Alabama Gulf Coast home — the way it tasted in 1978, before the festival got famous and the recipes got watered down.
This is the real thing. The original. The one everyone wishes they still had.
Don’t let this piece of Southern seafood history swim away. Get your dual-PDF download today and start cooking like you’re on the shores of Pleasure Island.