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A Savory History of Arkansas Delta Food: Potlikker, Coon Suppers & Chocolate Gravy Geographic Orientation/Louisiana oysters RockefellerAuthor: Cindy Grisham Up and down the Arkansas Delta, food tells a story. Whether the time Bill Clinton nearly died on the way to a coon dinner or the connections made over biscuits and gravy or the more common chicken and dumpling feuds, the area is no stranger to history. One of America's last frontiers, it was settled in the late nineteenth century by a rough and tumble collection of timber men, sharecroppers and entrepreneurs from all over the