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“We are so excited,” James Clesi said as he dished out cajun crawfish dirty rice.

The Clesies said their menu will include the dirty rice as well as boiled crawfish, crawfish etouffee and something called a “messi clesi,” which is a combination of the dirty rice and etouffee.

The same can be said for the founder of the Popeyes fried chicken empire, who put spicy chicken, red beans and dirty rice on the national map and whose story is outlined in a new book, “Secrets of a Tastemaker: Al Copeland, The Cookbook.”

The menu still features some of the same Creole flavors from when it first opened — blackened or fried catfish with dirty rice, tabasco Caesar salad, gumbo.

It was chicken two ways, takeout style: one smoky, juicy and aromatic, dunked in those iconic containers of yellow and green sauces; the other a kind of Peruvian dirty rice, with pieces of smoky bird accented with soy sauce and scallions.