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Gumbo Life

Ken Wells
Paperback Book  |  Recipes, Food & Drink  |  22 Jan 2025
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Straight from the roux bayou, a culinary memoir about how a centuries old Cajun and Creole secretgumbohas become one of the world's most beloved dishes.

The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americansall had a hand in the pot. What is it about gumbo that continues to delight and nourish so many, in America and 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 got started with a chicken chased down in the yard. In Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou, Wells shares his lifelong quest to explore gumbo's roots and mysteries. He spends time with octogenarian chefs to make a gourmet gumbo; joins a team at a highly competitive gumbo contest; visits a factory that churns out gumbo by the ton; and 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 a dish: it's an attitude, a way of seeing the world. This is a tasty culinary memoirto be enjoyed like a simmering pot of gumbo.

This edition includes recipe additions as well as a story about the author's quest for authentic Cajun Dark Roux, which involved a hunt for (thankfully scarce) bear lard.

Title: Gumbo Life

Format: Paperback Book

Release Date: 22 Jan 2025

Author: Ken Wells

Sku: 3166668

Catalogue No: 9781958888384

Category: Recipes, Food & Drink


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