Whether the gumbo you deem “authentic” is Creole ... and learned from were enslaved West Africans, Indigenous tribes, German and Irish immigrants, and later Haitians, following the end of ...

Mom’s from Illinois not Louisiana, and she’s of German descent not Creole. Her homemade gumbo still spoiled me from damn near anything served at restaurants, and that includes my time residing ...

The quintessential New Orleans bowl of gumbo is a history lesson on the mixed ... lauded French bakeries in New Orleans have Swiss and German names. Rice had been cultivated in Asia and Africa ...