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Although recipes for gumbo didn’t appear in cookbooks until the mid-1800s, historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall uncovered the first known mention of gumbo in a 1764 court document, according to writer ...
Gumbo (Louisiana Creole: Gum-bo) is a stew that is popular among the U.S. Gulf Coast community, the New Orleans stew variation being the official state cuisine of the U.S. state of Louisiana. [1] Gumbo consists primarily of a strongly flavored stock , meat or shellfish (or sometimes both), a thickener , and the Creole " holy trinity ": celery ...
Wilson was born in Roseland near Amite, the seat of Tangipahoa Parish, one of the "Florida Parishes" of southeastern Louisiana.He was the second-youngest of seven children of Harry D. Wilson, the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1916 to 1948 and a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
The "holy trinity" in Cajun and Louisiana Creole cuisine is the base for several dishes in the regional cuisines of Louisiana and consists of onions, bell peppers and celery. The preparation of Cajun/Creole dishes such as crawfish étouffée , gumbo , and jambalaya all start from this base.
My gumbo was less soupy and thicker and stew-like than the Gris-Gris original, but otherwise, the flavor was spot on. My at-home version of the gumbo served at Gris-Gris. (Photo: Terri Peters)
The recipe is broken up into three smaller recipes: the Cajun spice, the Cajun rice and the chicken gumbo. The Cajun spice can even be made in advance and stored for later use.
New Orleans Kitchens: Recipes from the Big Easy's Best Restaurants. Gibbs Smith, Publisher. ISBN 978-1-4236-1001-4. 216 pages. Tucker, S. (2009). New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-645-8. 256 pages.
Louisiana Creole cuisine (French: cuisine créole, Louisiana Creole: manjé kréyòl, Spanish: cocina criolla) is a style of cooking originating in Louisiana, United States, which blends West African, French, Spanish, and Native American influences, [1] [2] as well as influences from the general cuisine of the Southern United States.