Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou

by Ken Wells

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393254836
• ISBN13: 9780393254839
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"