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Gumbo Life - Tales from the Roux Bayou (Hardcover)
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Gumbo Life - Tales from the Roux Bayou (Hardcover)
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Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the
answer is universal: "Momma." The product of a melting pot of
culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the
people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in
bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans-all had
a hand in the pot. What is it about gumbo that continues to delight
and nourish so many? And what explains its spread around the world?
A seasoned journalist, Ken Wells sleuths out the answers. His
obsession goes back to his childhood in the Cajun bastion of Bayou
Black, where his French-speaking mother's gumbo often began with a
chicken chased down in the yard. Back then, gumbo was a humble soup
little known beyond the boundaries of Louisiana. So when a homesick
young Ken, at college in Missouri, realized there wasn't a
restaurant that could satisfy his gumbo cravings, he called his
momma for the recipe. That phone-taught gumbo was a disaster. The
second, cooked at his mother's side, fueled a lifelong quest to
explore gumbo's roots and mysteries. In Gumbo Life: Tales from the
Roux Bayou, Wells does just that. He spends time with octogenarian
chefs who turn the lowly coot into gourmet gumbo; joins a team at a
highly competitive gumbo contest; visits a factory that churns out
gumbo by the ton; observes the gumbo-making rituals of an iconic
New Orleans restaurant where high-end Creole cooking and Cajun
cuisine first merged. Gumbo Life, rendered in Wells' affable prose,
makes clear that gumbo is more than simply a delicious dish: it's
an attitude, a way of seeing the world. For all who read its pages,
this is a tasty culinary memoir-to be enjoyed and shared like a
simmering pot of gumbo.
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