What is Gumbo? Plus answers to all your other questions about this New Orleans favorite, including the origin, types, ingredients, and how to make the perfect roux.
What is Gumbo?
The exact origin of what we have come to know as Gumbo is somewhat debated, but it is often used as a metaphor for the melting pot of cultures that have come to exist in southern Louisiana. A perfect combination of French, Spanish, Native American, African, Italian, and German culinary influences, people from each of these cultures lived together in a small area of Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries.