gumbo

Example Sentences

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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 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

As the bits and pieces of this great big gumbo of a country come together, new and surprising things are created.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024

Omakayas was glad of the boring time she’d spent over the summer pressing fistfuls of gumbo clay, taken from the center of the island, into those places where the dried mud had crumbled.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich