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gumbo

[guhm-boh] / ˈgʌm boʊ /


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On a recent morning, Nones took photos for a cookbook, shooting portraits of residents who submitted recipes for Romanian stuffed cabbage and gumbo, coaching them from his chair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

There’s a meat market there, and they have all the andouille sausage, which is good if I’m going to cook something like a gumbo.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

Try using it at home, either in a super simple dashi or maybe in a kombu-imbued rice pilaf, a crispy okonomiyaki, or perhaps even take inspiration from Amanda and make a vegan gumbo.

From Salon • May 14, 2024

Luckily the street is an artists’ enclave, with some opening their homes up for Hantman’s dinner receptions — one in January served gumbo family-style two doors down at a local artist’s Midcentury Modern house.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024

Between this level and the surface was a mixture of sand and clay so saturated with water that engineers called it gumbo.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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