Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou Audiobook (Free)

Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo as well as the answer is general: ‘Momma.’ The merchandise of a melting container of culinary influences, gumbo, actually, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: People from france aristocrats, Western Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans-all got a submit the pot. The facts about gumbo that is constantly on the joy and nourish a lot of? And what clarifies its spread around the world?

A practiced journalist, Ken Wells about Gumbo Existence: Tales through the Roux Bayou sleuths out the answers. His obsession goes back to his child years in the Cajun bastion of Bayou Black. Back then, gumbo was a humble soup little known beyond the limitations of Louisiana. Therefore when a homesick youthful Ken, at college in Missouri, recognized there wasn’t a cafe that could fulfill his gumbo yearnings, he called his momma for the recipe. That phone-taught gumbo was a disaster. The second, prepared at his mother’s part, fueled a lifelong pursuit to explore gumbo’s origins and mysteries.

In Gumbo Existence, you follow Wells as he watches octogenarian chefs turn the lowly coot into premium gumbo, joins a team at a hotly contested gumbo cook-off, and visits a factory that churns out gumbo by the ton. Brisk travelogue, riveting history, heart-felt memoir-this is certainly a book to become savored like a simmering pot of gumbo.