Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou by Wells, Ken
Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou by Wells, Ken

Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou

Straight from the roux bayou, a culinary memoir about how a centuries old Cajun and Creole secret―gumbo―has...
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Author: Ken Wells
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Language: English
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Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou by Wells, Ken

Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou

CHF 24.89
Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou by Wells, Ken

Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou

CHF 24.89
Author: Ken Wells
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Straight from the roux bayou, a culinary memoir about how a centuries old Cajun and Creole secret―gumbo―has 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 Americans―all 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 memoir―to 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.



Author: Ken Wells
Publisher: Blair
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781958888384

About the Author
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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