Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou

Wells, Ken

ISBN 10: 0393254836 / ISBN 13: 9780393254839

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

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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.Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux BayouGumbo Life

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Titolo: Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: New