Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou - Hardcover

Wells, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393254836 ISBN 13: 9780393254839

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 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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Ken Wells covered car wrecks and gator sightings for his hometown weekly before leaving the bayous for a journalism career that included twenty-four years on the Wall Street Journal. He has written five novels of the Cajun bayous and lives in Chicago.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393254836
• ISBN 13: 9780393254839
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 259
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