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Gumbo life : tales from the Roux Bayou / Ken Wells.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : W W Norton & Company , 2019.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 259 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780393254839
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.81 WEL
Summary: In this culinary memoir, Ken Wells delves into the history and culture of gumbo, a dish that reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans. Wells travels his native Louisiana to spend time with chefs cooking gumbo, at gumbo contests, at a gumbo factory, and at an iconic New Orleans restaurant.
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In this culinary memoir, Ken Wells delves into the history and culture of gumbo, a dish that reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans. Wells travels his native Louisiana to spend time with chefs cooking gumbo, at gumbo contests, at a gumbo factory, and at an iconic New Orleans restaurant.

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