TY - BOOK AU - Wells, Ken TI - Gumbo life: tales from the Roux Bayou SN - 9780393254839 U1 - 641.81 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - W W Norton & Company KW - Cookbooks KW - Acadian Cuisine KW - Cooking N1 - Includes bibliographies and index N2 - 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 ER -