TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wells,Ken
TI  - Gumbo life: tales from the Roux Bayou 
SN  - 9780393254839
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923
KW  - Wells, Ken
KW  - Gumbo (Soup)
KW  - History
KW  - Cooking, Acadian
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Cookbooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes recipes; Includes bibliographical references and index; Roux awakening -- Academic gumbo: it's a swamp out there -- Gumbo gets going : Hank, Ted Kennedy, and the Great Wall of China -- Gumbo Inc. -- The meaning of "T" : man in the land of a zillion chefs -- Feasting among the poule d'eau cookers -- Moby gumbo -- Ready, set, cook! -- Creole gets its Cajun on -- Gumbo hunting in Treme -- My gumbo life -- The glory of gumbo's pantry -- Gumbo as destiny -- Serpents on the Roux Bayou -- Bayou black today -- The gumbo highway and gumbo life converge
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  -